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Pasadena Unified Unveils Protocol for Reopening K-12 Schools

Published on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 | 2:41 pm
 

While all Los Angeles County Schools are to remain closed at the start of the coming academic year by order of state health officials, the Pasadena Unified School District released formal guidelines and protocols for how the reopening of K-12 schools will take place once it’s safe to do so.

The reopening protocols, which were posted on the city’s website Monday, outline procedures for preventing the spread of COVID-19, as well as guidance on how to deal with infections within a school community.

“These protocols are provided for schools for use in the instance that community COVID-19 conditions will permit return to in-person K-12 education in the City of Pasadena for the 2020-21 school year,” according to the reopening protocol. “Schools should adopt contingency plans for remote learning, if worsening community COVID-19 conditions (e.g., increasing cases) or emerging science indicates a need for greater caution.”

The state’s existing health order only allows schools to reopen when the county in which the school exists has remained off the state’s COVID-19 county monitoring list for 14 days in a row. Los Angeles County and about three-dozen other counties remained on the watch list as of Tuesday.

Among the measures outlines in the protocol are requiring face coverings at schools, connecting staff and families with medical resources prior to reopening, following the COVID-19 Exposure Management Plan in the case of a detected infection, reducing contact, screening all people who enter a school site for COVID-19 symptoms daily and developing a program for influenza vaccination.

While there is no vaccine for COVID-19, getting an influenza vaccine can be important during the pandemic, officials said.

Flu vaccines could prevent co-infections of both the flue and COVID-19, reduce demands on health care facilities and decrease instances of the flu that could be hard to distinguish from COVID-19.

The protocol also calls for special attention to cleaning of campuses, bathrooms and buses, the encouragement of frequent hand-washing and enforcement of social distancing.

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