Sam and Julie talk about our local public schools reopening amidst an uptick in COVID cases. Since the beginning of August, Union County's cases have doubled. Looking at a map of outbreaks across the country, our county sticks out as the darkest spot in the state of Pennsylvania. PA State Health Secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine, said this week that Union County alone should consider starting school completely online. Can we get our kids back to school safely?

 

SHOW NOTES:

Official school guidance

• CDC school reopening guidance 
• PA Department of Education Guidelines 
• PA Department of Health and Department of Education Outline of Threshold Criteria for School Reopening 
• PA Department of Health County-by-County Early Warning Monitoring Dashboard (provides stats needed to check against the PDE chart) 
• LASD Reopening Materials 
• LASD video conversation with public health experts from Evan and Geisinger -- featuring greatest hits like "we are all in this together" and "mask breaks… obviously outdoors."

Good general science-based resources

• Your Local Epidemiologist on facebook 
• Dear Pandemic on facebook 

Mask videos:

• PBS's It's OK to Be Smart -- COVID-19 and Mask Myths Debunked
• PBS's It's OK to Be Smart -- How Well Do Masks Work to Stop COVID-19?  (Schlieren Imagining) 
• Flamethrower Mask Demo -- Do Masks Work or Not?? 

In the news:

Since we recorded and mentioned New Zealand having had no new COVID-19 cases for 100 days, they have in fact had an outbreak and are now at 30 new cases.  They are doing vigorous contact tracing and we will see what else they do to get things back under control...

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Intro: “In The 21st Century” by Keshco is licensed under a CC Attribution-Share Alike License.

 

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