San Diego Unified School District officials again held off on setting a potential date for reopening schools because COVID-19 cases and deaths continue their relentless growth.
NBC 7 s Rory Devine has updates from the San Diego Unified School District, and what s expected at Tuesday s meeting. When we start the new school year in August or September, we may still have to test students to make sure they’re not coming in asymptomatic positive. We’ll probably have to have lower density classrooms, Taras said.
Testing pilot programs began last month, according to district nurse Susan Barndollar. There are currently 10 pilot sites and they hope to add 10 new sites every week with an emphasis placed on communities with the highest case rates, according to Barndollar.
Come next school year, it s highly likely there will be parents who aren t comfortable sending their kids back to school until they are vaccinated, Taras said.