We Have to Focus on Opening Schools, Not Bars [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 7/6/2012:30 PM

By Jennifer B. Nuzzo and Joshua M. Sharfstein, The New York Times, July 1, 2020

The way states lifted social distancing restrictions imposed to fight the coronavirus sadly demonstrates our priorities. Officials let bars, restaurants and gyms open, despite warnings from public health experts that these environments pose the greatest risk for spreading the disease.

Yet political leaders seem to have paid scant attention to safely reopening schools.

The consequences of those backward priorities — Covid-19 rampaging through states that reopened quickly — make it even more vital that we extensively prepare to reopen classrooms as safely as possible this fall.

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