Why it's safe for schools to reopen in Santa Clara County

Solutions San Jose, a new local non profit focused on common sense solutions to local political isues, recently sponsored an online panel of experts exploring why it is safe to reopen local schools, and how to make them ever safer. Dr. Yvonne Maldonado of Stanford University discussed why the most up-to-date science says school reopenings are safe.

Granted, it wasn't always safe for kids to go back to school because of high local community rates. But at this time the schools appear to be much safer than any other venue in the social part of the environment in which we live.

For example, many schools have been open since September 2020 and have been functioning very safely across the country with no outbreaks--there have been a few infections--and those are not happening, broadly speaking, in children.

Children make up 13% of the infected but most are not symptomatic.

Watch the whole thing here.

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