How the Race Between Vaccinations and COVID Variants Affects School Reopening
This article is part of the guide The EdSurge Podcast. President Biden has made reopening K-12 schools as one of his top priorities for the first 100 days of his administration, or by the end of April. With COVID-19 vaccinations rolling out across the country, thereâs hope that that will happen. But there is also a sense of added urgency. New strains of the coronavirus are emerging, and vaccine distributions and administrations have run into hiccups. âWe are in a race right now between vaccine distribution and these variants becoming more common,â says Asaf Bitton, a physician...