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Schools  \nStates Must Guide Schools on Reopening, Slowing Spread of Virus  \nPrepared by  \nHealthy Schools Network New Jersey Work Environment Council  \nWith contributions from  \nNew Jersey Education Association, Healthy Schools Now (NJ), NEA Healthy Schools Caucus, Learning Disabilities Association of America, National Association of School Nurses, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America  \n153 Regent Street, Ste. 1050 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 [www.HealthySchools.org](www.HealthySchools.org)  \nNew Jersey Work Environment Council 172 W. State Street, Second Floor Trenton, NJ 08608  \n[www.njwec.org](www.njwec.org)  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nPreface 1  \nA Public Health Imperative: Keeping Children Safe at School 1  \nThe State’s Role: Providing Public Health Guidance 1  \nThe Condition of School Facilities Affects Transmission of the Virus 2  \nSchool Staff Vulnerability, COVID-19, and Schools 4  \nSchool Infection Prevention and Control Plan 6  \nFirst Steps 7  \nSchools Pre-opening 8  \nSchool Occupants and Occupancy 13  \nAppendix 19  \nAppendix 1: School District Response Plan for Anticipating, Recognizing,  \nPreventing, and Addressing Coronavirus 20  \nAppendix 2: Symptoms of COVID-19 Among Children and Adults 24  \nAppendix 3: Phased Reopenings: Federal Centers for Disease Control and  \nPrevention “Decision Tree” 28  \nAppendix 4: Federal and Other Authoritative Resources Related to COVID-19 31  \nAppendix 5: Sampling of State Plans to Reopen Schools 34  \nAppendix 6: Cleaning and Sanitizing and Disinfecting 35  \nAppendix 7: Indoor Air, Ventilation, and Aerosol Transmission 39  \nAppendix 8: Dampness and Growing Molds in Schools 42  \nAppendix 9: Drinking Water 44  \nAppendix 10: NIOSH Hierarchy of Controls 45  \nAppendix 11: Considerations for School Nurses Regarding Care of Students  \nand Staff that Become Ill at School or Arrive Sick 46  \n1  \nPREFACE  \nA PUBLIC HEALTH IMPERATIVE: KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE AT SCHOOL  \nThe 65 million children in schools and child care facilities* every day are 100% of our future. Every state requires children to attend school. Yet unlike the adults at school, they lack federal or state workplace health and safety rights or protections.  \nBy their nature, schools are an environment conducive to the spread of COVID-19. They are densely occupied for long periods. In fact, schools are where children spend the most time, other than home—often 30-40 hours per week. Like adults, children may shed and transmit the coronavirus, yet show no symptoms. Except for masks, there is no PPE for children, who breathe more air per pound of body weight than adults; further, children cannot identify or protect themselves from risks.  \nSchools can either slow the spread of the virus or speed it up. If they are to reduce, rather than increase, the risk of new COVID-19 outbreaks and repeated closures, schools will need to adopt districtwide, facility-level written school infection prevention and control plans to address the details of cleaning, disinfecting, sanitation, indoor air, and environmental quality, as well as occupancy rates, occupant behaviors, and how to determine day to day who can enter. Right now, schools across the country are struggling to come up with these plans on their own.  \nCOVID-19 is a public health crisis. It demands a public health response. Overburdened local schools are at a disadvantage since they do not have the knowledge, expertise, or resources to develop such a comprehensive response.  \nThis report is the national call to action for the public health community—the states and tribes and big city public agencies—to produce guidance, in the form of an authoritative Plan for Infection Prevention and Control in Schools that local schools can adopt as they prepare for reopening. These authoritative state-level plans offered to schools should include detailed recommendations on specific steps that schools should follow and selec","cbCait5CfIWY7AVH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait5CfIWY7AVH","pdf",1038142,49,"English","# Preface\n## A Public Health Imperative: Keeping Children Safe at School\n## The State’s Role: Providing Public Health Guidance\n## The Condition of School Facilities Affects Transmission of the Virus\n## School Staff Vulnerability, COVID-19, and Schools\n## School Infection Prevention and Control Plan\n## First Steps\n## Schools Pre-opening\n## School Occupants and Occupancy\n## Appendix\n## Appendix 1: School District Response Plan\n## Appendix 2: Symptoms of COVID-19 Among Children and Adults\n## Appendix 3: Phased Reopenings: Federal CDC “Decision Tree”\n## Appendix 4: Federal and Other Authoritative Resources Related to COVID-19\n## Appendix 5: Sampling of State Plans to Reopen Schools\n## Appendix 6: Cleaning and Sanitizing and Disinfecting\n## Appendix 7: Indoor Air, Ventilation, and Aerosol Transmission\n## Appendix 8: Dampness and Growing Molds in Schools\n## Appendix 9: Drinking Water\n## Appendix 10: NIOSH Hierarchy of Controls\n## Appendix 11: Considerations for School Nurses Regarding Care","[{\"question\":\"Why does the report describe schools as conducive to COVID-19 spread?\",\"answer\":\"Schools involve dense occupancy for long periods and children may transmit the coronavirus without showing symptoms. 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