The FDA recently approved the Pfizer vaccine for use in kids 12 and older, but it doesn't mean getting all kids vaccinated is right around the corner.
to return, though some states could make it a requirement.
"The data suggests that where public health measures are instituted and adhered to in school settings, that even in areas where there's high community transmission, the schools haven't contributed much to that problem," said Onyema Ogbuagu, a professor at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, who led the university's Pfizer trials."So it almost seems like vaccination will be a plus, but it's not indispensable with regards to schools reopening safely.
Frenck added that he sees teachers being vaccinated as a"good justification for sending kids back to school. ... It's unusual that kids are acquiring the infection in the school setting.""If ... schools become a greater center for spread from children to each other and children to adults, the urgency to try to prevent that, either through more distancing measures ... or, of course, vaccination becomes much more important.
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