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As Americans anxiously debate how reopening schools and more and more campuses cancel face-to-face categories, Europe is a living laboratory. Despite a strong accumulation of coronavirus cases in recent weeks, even countries that were hit hard last spring, such as Italy, Spain, Britain and France, are determined to return to normal categories this autumn.
Germany, which was much less affected at the height of the pandemic, closed schools from the start and then switched to a hybrid style of distance learning and in the classroom. The size of the classes was smaller and strict social distance regulations were used for the number of infections.
But now a new experiment is underway: teachers and academics have been called to classes, if new surveillance is sufficient.
Social estrangement and mask are mandatory in maximum schools, but rarely in classrooms, despite the recent recommendation by the World Health Organization that young people aged 12 and over wear a mask when it is to distance themselves. If the scholars wore a mask for several hours a day, according to the argument in Germany, their ability to be informed would be affected.
Instead, schools aim to better ventilate separate study rooms and study rooms so that students are in contact with only a few dozen other people and epidemics can be contained.
Germany’s abandonment of the most cautious part-time reopening strategy is partly due to resource constraints: like most countries, it has very few teachers to divide academics into smaller categories and allow social estrangement.
But several weeks after returning to school, educators and even virologists who were skeptical of the reopening say the early effects look promising. Despite the emergence of individual infections in dozens of schools, there has been no serious epidemic or lasting closure.
Berlin is a good example: by the end of last week, there had been 49 infections among teachers and academics in the city. But thanks to immediate testing and selective quarantines, no more than six hundred academics out of about 366,000 had to stay home on a given day. Of 803 schools, only 39 were affected.
“It’s messy and imperfect and I would have liked to see more precautions, but the most important thing not to forget so far is that it works,” said Sandra Ciesek, virologist at Frankfurt University Hospital, who signed a certificate from leading German virologists. supporting reopening.
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