{"id":7480,"date":"2024-08-27T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2024-08-27T21:15:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:15:17","slug":"back-to-school-covid-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/back-to-school-covid-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school, COVID edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/health-care\/4848767-back-to-school-covid-edition\/\">The Hill<\/a> Health experts are urging families and schools administers to take active steps in\u00a0preventing the spread of COVID-19\u00a0amid potential fall and winter spikes in cases. \u00a0Weekly COVID-19 deaths have been on the rise since June, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/?email=467cb6399cb7df64551775e431052b43a775c749&amp;emaila=12a6d4d069cd56cfddaa391c24eb7042&amp;emailb=054528e7403871c79f668e49dd3c44b1ec00c7f611bf9388f76bb2324d6ca5f3&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=08.26.24%20Health%20Care%20JC#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00\">COVID Data Tracker<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rising COVID-19 cases seem to be having&nbsp;<strong>little affect on schools<\/strong>&nbsp;this year as they appear to be sticking to previous plans to mitigate the spread of the virus. K-12 schools in the U.S. have chosen to treat COVID-19 like RSV or the flu, at the recommendation of health organizations like the CDC. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC now classifies COVID-19 as just another respiratory illness, and as a result, many schools have dropped their previous COVID-19 precautions like masking or enforcing social distancing. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/newsletters\/health-care\/4848767-back-to-school-covid-edition\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"jdKLt QU\">jdKLt QU<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill Health experts are urging families and schools administers to take active steps in\u00a0preventing the spread of COVID-19\u00a0amid potential fall and winter spikes in cases. \u00a0Weekly COVID-19 deaths have been on the rise since June, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u00a0COVID Data Tracker. \u00a0 Rising COVID-19 cases seem to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}