Here Are the More Than 40 Schools That Have Already Closed for COVID

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Schools across the country are beginning to reopen for in-person classes, which means students and teachers are starting to get sick with COVID-19 — and it’s only August. No one knows how badly opening schools’ doors will propel the pandemic, or how many kids and teachers will be infected, hospitalized, and die. But looking at these early openers can give us a sense of what’s to come.

Districts are taking different precautions to prevent outbreaks, and some are more effective than others. Kids and teachers at some schools must wear masks at all times, but other schools either don’t require everyone to wear a mask or aren’t strict about enforcing mask rules. Some have cut class sizes, limited contact between different groups of students, and moved classes outside or to larger classrooms. And some screen students or ask their families’ to screen them for symptoms. The problem with screening, of course, is that about 40% of cases are asymptomatic, and people who are infected without symptoms can spread the disease around their school unknowingly.

Fatherly has collected information about as many COVID-19 cases linked to school reopenings as we could find. Not all of them were caused by the schools reopening per se. In fact, cases at this early point have mostly been in teachers and students who were infected before classes started. But the school outbreaks will come, and we’ll be updating this list to catch them.

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