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Kids who are exposed to COVID-19 can stay in class as long as they are tested in schools, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionsaid in a news releaseon Friday.
“Test-to-Stay is another valuable tool in a layered prevention strategy that includes promoting vaccination of eligible students and staff, requiring everyone age 2 and older wear a mask inside schools and facilities, keeping at least 3 feet of distance between students, screening testing, ventilation, handwashing, and staying home when sick,” the news release reads.
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“These studies demonstrate that test-to-stay works to keep unvaccinated children in school safely,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters Friday, perThe Washington Post, calling it a “promising and now proven practice.”
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The CDC recommends that children ages 5 and over get the COVID-19 vaccine to protect themselves from the virus. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is currently the only vaccine approved for kids ages 5-17. Anyone over the age of 16can get a COVID booster shot.
Adults over the age of 18 can choose either the Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson vaccine; however, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practicesrecommended to the CDCon Thursday that adults choose either Pfizer or Moderna after theCDC linked 54 confirmed casesof people developing blood counts with low platelet levels – a rare condition calledThrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome(TTS) – to the J&J shot.
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