"If we knew in March what we know now, we never would have closed schools as a public health intervention."

Dr. Jeanne Noble
Director of Emergency COVID Response, UCSF

New guidance from a multi-disciplinary group of experts at Harvard University, Brown University, Boston University, Tufts University, and New America states that:

“In July, we published guidance for school leaders making decisions about school re-openings that offered a tiered structure for thinking about risk at different levels of community spread. We recommended that schools be closed once the average daily case rate rose above 25 cases/100,000 people, at the county level.

Since July, our scientific understanding of COVID has increased significantly, as has our understanding of degrees of risk in schools, and we can now recommend that schools be open even at the very high levels of spread we are now seeing, provided that they strictly implement strategies of infection control.”

3 ft social distancing for young learners at all levels of community spread
6ft social distancing for high school learners when levels of community spread rise above 100/100,000 daily new cases; 3ft social distancing below that level

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"If we knew in March what we know now, we never would have closed schools as a public health intervention."

Dr. Jeanne Noble Director of Emergency COVID Response, UCSF

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Dr. Jeanne Noble
Director of Emergency COVID Response, UCSF