Rochelle Walenski, the nominee to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has spoken out against U.S. President-elect Joe Biden after announcing his team’s responsibility to deal with the Quid-19 epidemic in Wilmington, Delaware, on December 8. , 2020.
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The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that teachers do not need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before schools can reopen safely.
“Indicates that schools can reopen safely and does not suggest safe reopening, teachers need to be vaccinated,” CDC director Rochelle Valensky told reporters during a White House press briefing on Covid-19.
“Teacher vaccinations are not a prerequisite for schools to reopen safely,” he added.
The CDC’s advisory committee on immunization practice voted to put “frontline essential workers”, including teachers, first to get health care workers and long-term care facility residents first, then to get the Covid-19 vaccine. However, U.S. officials said it would take some time for most teachers to get their shots to pick up the pace of vaccinations.
Still, the U.S. School systems have been forced to learn remotely in the past year, as the coronavirus epidemic has shifted to distance learning, infecting more than 26 million Americans in less than a year and killing at least 447,077. Has been killed.
Some parents are forced to stay home to look after their children instead of going to work. Meanwhile, teachers and other faculty have expressed concern about returning to school, potentially endangering their health.
A CDC study published late last month found little evidence of the virus spreading to schools in the U.S. and abroad when precautions were taken, such as wearing masks, social distance and ventilating rooms.
The Biden administration has unveiled a Covid rescue plan that will provide 170 170 billion to reopen schools and universities. The money will be used for the test standard. The administration has said testing is a “critical” strategy to control the spread of the virus, but added tests are still not widely available, and U.S. Still not using it effectively.
Vale Lansky has previously said that schools should be the first to open and the last to close in epidemics.
Jeff Zents, President J. B. Biden’s Covid-19 Caesar, said Wednesday that Biden is “very clear” that he wants schools to “reopen and remain open.”
“It means that every school has the tools and equipment to open safely,” he said during a press briefing, urging Congress to “do its part” by passing Biden’s Covid rescue plan. “Not just private schools or schools in affluent areas but all schools.”
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