You don't have to cough/sneeze to create droplets or aerosols.
Talking is sufficient.
Take this into account while planning for school reopenings.
Inside, all day, close up?
Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets | NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Talking is sufficient.
Take this into account while planning for school reopenings.
Inside, all day, close up?
Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets | NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
Masks, face shields?, distance, barriers...
Cohorting...
Limiting time together...
More layers of prevention = better.
What would I most favor as a parent? Small cohorts + outdoor education. Give kids room to move, an opportunity to socialize in small, static groups...
Cohorting...
Limiting time together...
More layers of prevention = better.
What would I most favor as a parent? Small cohorts + outdoor education. Give kids room to move, an opportunity to socialize in small, static groups...
Plus experiential learning outside.
We can try to engineer classrooms to mitigate risk, and we should.
But being outside offers ready-made advantages (space, ventilation, sunlight...the activity that has been curtailed during stay at home).
Of course this is not possible...
We can try to engineer classrooms to mitigate risk, and we should.
But being outside offers ready-made advantages (space, ventilation, sunlight...the activity that has been curtailed during stay at home).
Of course this is not possible...
For many schools. Where it is, it offers a promising strategy. Otherwise, I fear we are in for a repeat of this spring--parents struggling w kids struggling w Zoom.
