Reply To: help schools

I don’t know about guidelines, but I think indoors mask-less rooms with children being there for hours, either separated or with barriers, are way too risky. Both because HVAC will not take aerosols away quickly enough, and because kids will pretty get into each other faces with direct contact.

Did someone with such arrangements have experience with an outbreak? how many positives resulted from one infection?

If your community is isolated, spatially from other Jews and culturally from non-Jews, and you do not have current cases, what might help is a early warning system to prevent asymptomatic transmission going thru the school – isolate any potential case in families that have kids in the school: anyone who has a family member coughing, sneezing, visited hotspots – stay home or/and takes a test. Parents or school should establish this yourself, not waiting for the government in the slow contact tracing. You already know who the contacts are.