The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidelines for safety and prevention in physical school classes on the 19th. With students wearing masks, student desks can be three feet apart, but students must still maintain a distance of six feet during sports activities, parties, lunches, choral practices and other activities, and teachers must also be six feet away from others.
CDC originally stated that the safe social distance between people was six feet, which forced schools across the U.S. to limit the number of students or adjust lesson plans to ensure that teachers and students had enough space when physical classes resumed, but this also caused inconvenience to many schools, including students having to rotate back to class and students not being able to use lockers due to irregular classrooms; with the updated guidelines, schools across the country will be able to welcome more students back to school and have more flexibility. Physical classroom programs will also be more flexible.
The CDC’s new guidelines include the removal of plastic baffles from desks as long as teachers and students wear masks and are cautious about the Epidemic, and the reduction of desk spacing from six feet to three feet in secondary schools with low community transmission rates, but at least six feet between desks if community transmission rates are still high.
According to the new CDC guidelines, safe social distances must still be maintained at six feet in some campus locations, including the library and areas where masks cannot be worn, such as the cafeteria, and at least six feet in situations where many people gather or speak or sing at the same Time, including choral practice and sports activities.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the new preparedness guidelines will accelerate the safe reopening of schools and facilitate the adaptation of teachers and students to the resumption of physical classes, which will benefit students’ academic, social and psychological well-being.
The CDC has been recommending that schools follow the six-foot safe distance guidelines since last year, but according to the World health Organization (WHO), a one-meter (equivalent to more than three feet) social distance is safe enough for schools, so before the CDC updated its guidelines, schools across the U.S. had already reduced the safe social distance to three feet on their own, and a recent study in Massachusetts also pointed out that the three and six-foot desk spacing In a recent study in Massachusetts, there was no significant change in the rate of virus transmission between schools with three-foot and six-foot desk spacing.
Greta Massetti, the head of CDC’s Community Immunization Control, also said that children and adolescents are less likely to develop serious illnesses and are less likely to spread the virus than adults, so three feet is a safe social distance for schools.
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