Reopening Schools
Operating schools during COVID-19: CDC's Considerations
This webpage provides a set of considerations for how to safely open schools with emphasis on promoting behaviors that reduce COVID-19’s spread, maintaining healthy environments, maintaining healthy operations, and preparing for when someone gets sick.
How to Safely Reopen Colleges and Universities During COVID-19: Experiences From Taiwan
This article details the steps that Taiwan took in order to safely reopen universities and colleges which are now functioning as normal. The steps include the creation of a task force for each university, a school-based risk screening based on travel history, occupation, contacts and clusters, general hygiene measures such as masks and PPE, changes in sanitation and ventilation, regulating school assemblies and a protocol for suspected cases.
Reopening schools after the COVID-19 lockdown
This article discusses four main strategies that could be taken when considering reopening or returning to schools and how to return if so. They look at strategies included across the world dependent on how well each country was able to reduce the transmission of COVID-19.
Reopening schools during COVID-19
This editorial discusses the effectiveness of measures that have been implemented in the reopening of schools and what will be needed to further reduce the spread of COVID-19 in schools and from schools out into the community.
COVID-19 and the re-opening of schools: a policy maker’s dilemma
This article discusses different strategies schools could implement to reopen and discusses the policymakers dilemma having to take into account the psychological, educational and social consequences for children and their families while schools are shut down or if they reopen.