253 - Schools Week Finale: Is It Safe to Reopen US Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

While schools may not be inherently safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, they can be made safer. Dr. Caitlin Rivers of the Center for Health Security talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what schools can do to consider reopening safely including the data to consider, and risk-reduction methods like masks, distancing, testing, and more. They also discuss how variants of SARS-CoV-2 could factor into these developments. KEYWORDS: child health; student life; pandemic response