The Hill Health experts are urging families and schools administers to take active steps in preventing the spread of COVID-19 amid potential fall and winter spikes in cases. Weekly COVID-19 deaths have been on the rise since June, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID Data Tracker.
Rising COVID-19 cases seem to be having little affect on schools this year as they appear to be sticking to previous plans to mitigate the spread of the virus. K-12 schools in the U.S. have chosen to treat COVID-19 like RSV or the flu, at the recommendation of health organizations like the CDC.
The CDC now classifies COVID-19 as just another respiratory illness, and as a result, many schools have dropped their previous COVID-19 precautions like masking or enforcing social distancing.