Last week, the Biden administration promised 10 million COVID tests to schools every month. But a local superintendent warns it’s not that simple. Garnet Valley leaders worry the new effort may be fixing something that isn’t broken. ARobertsCBS reports
GLEN MILLS, Pa. — Last week, the Biden administration promised 10 million COVID-19 tests to schools every month. But one local superintendent warns it’s not that simple.
Garnet Valley’s superintendent says he has been able to keep a majority of the district’s more than 5,000 students learning in-person — especially in the days immediately after winter break as new cases surged — thanks to daily on-site testing.Test-to-stay programs are meant to keep students who have been exposed to a COVID-positive person but don’t show symptoms and test negative in-class.
But now, Bertrando worries his testing supplies — currently provided through a partnership with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia — may be disrupted as the state health department steps in to manage inventory under the Biden administration’s initiative to provide 10 monthly tests to schools nationwide.“How that is going to impact our testing programs, quite frankly, I don’t know. We just got that information today,” Bertrando said.
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