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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, the CDC guidelines don’t specify ventilation. What it specified is that in areas of “highest risk” of spread, which is the current situation, sending adolescents back who have been shown to spread the virus with the same efficiency as adults is unwise without a testing plan.

No one is saying never send them back. We are saying APS needs to follow CDC guidelines. Covid hasn’t gone away and student safety is still an issue. I want your kids to be safe. I want mine safe. I want to kids at Wakefield and HB to be safe. There needs to be testing or they need to hold secondary return for a few weeks until case numbers come down. Which they will as a result of the vaccination effort.[/quote]

The CDC guidelines do not mention ventilation nearly enough and epidemiologists and indoor air quality folks are criticizing the CDC for that. APE loves to quote a guy from Harvard, Joseph Allen. Even he didn't think ventilation was emphasized enough in a NYTimes article on Friday: “C.D.C. gives lip service to ventilation in its report, and you have to search to find it,” said Joseph Allen, an expert on building safety at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. “It’s not as prominent as it should be.”

This is an airborne disease, not a surface one as we all thought in the beginning. [/quote]

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