Much discussion has taken place surrounding the effects of teenage mental health during the pandemic. Thehigh school yearsare already a challenging and confusing time for many teens, but new data from the CDC suggests that the pandemic has taken all of the usual pains of the teenage years and ...
In middle and high schools, the agency alters the guidance to reflect at least 3 feet only in areas where transmission is low, moderate or substantial. However, middle and high schools in areas with high transmission can reduce from 6 feet to 3 feet if cohorting, o...
The CDC guidance was problematic for many schools that traditionally had 25, 30 or more children per classroom in closely grouped desks. Some schools adopted complicated scheduling that might, for example, have half a class come to school on some days and the other half on other days. The Ri...
The last round of the survey's results had highlighted worsening mental health and violence affecting LGBTQ high school students. Also pulled offline was much of the CDC's adult immunization guidance, which referenced transgender and nonbinary people as part of carefully crafted recommendations for ...
Some datasets the group's members said they needed, like a CDCsurveyofmental healthand chronic disease in high school students, were accessible again by Thursday. But anonline toolto navigate results from a similar dataset overseen by the agency about adults, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillanc...
Fifth grader Ally Cortez works on her computer at West Orange Elementary School surrounded by a plastic shield in Orange, California, on March 18, 2021. Jae C. Hong/AP The CDC's updated guidance for schools said students could be distanced 3 feet apart, as long as additional mitig...
“There was clear bipartisan support for the need to have CDC guidance and the need to have best practices," said Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla. The CDC did not respond to a Thursday request for an interview with Redfield. In a recent interview with the AP, the agency's No. 2 a...
... “There are very good reasons that the World Health Organization has repeatedly affirmed their guidance for children under 6 to not wear masks,” said a pediatrician who has both state and national leadership roles in the AAP but who wished to remain anonymous because they did not want ...
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says every American should be concerned about "chilling" suggestions from President Donald Trump's top border adviser that he could be arrested over guidance the Democrat issued to state employees about what to do if confronted by federal immigration agents. ...
Some experts disagree on guidance change It’s reasonable to want to treat Covid-19 like other respiratory viruses, said Dr. Ellie Murray, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Boston University’s School of Public Health, “but you can’t just discard the science.” “It’s not good...