WEBVTT 00:00.042 --> 00:03.075 MEDICAL PHYSICIAN, THE FOUNDER 00:03.109 --> 00:05.732 AND CEO OF ADVANCING HEALTH 00:05.733 --> 00:07.833 EQUITY AND A YAHOO! NEWS MEDICAL 00:07.834 --> 00:08.201 CONTRIBUTOR. 00:08.236 --> 00:09.563 DOCTOR, LET ME START WITH YOU 00:09.597 --> 00:09.924 YOU. 00:09.959 --> 00:13.753 WHAT DO YOU THINK THE SCIENCE 00:13.787 --> 00:15.537 REQUIRES FOR THE REOPENING OF 00:15.571 --> 00:16.055 SCHOOLS? 00:16.089 --> 00:17.950 >> THERE IS SEVERAL FACTORS 00:17.984 --> 00:19.368 THERE AT PLAY. 00:19.403 --> 00:21.658 THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IS THE 00:21.659 --> 00:23.441 COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION RATE. 00:23.443 --> 00:26.431 CURRENTLY THE CDC AND W.H.O. ARE 00:26.432 --> 00:28.009 SAYING 5% POSITIVITY RATE. 00:28.010 --> 00:29.248 ANYTHING ABOVE THAT, IT’S NOT 00:29.282 --> 00:30.740 SAFE TO OPEN. 00:30.741 --> 00:32.891 SO LOOKING AT THAT NUMBER, THERE 00:32.926 --> 00:34.782 ONLY ARE A SMALLER NUMBER OF 00:34.784 --> 00:36.293 AREAS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY 00:36.294 --> 00:37.926 THAT ARE PREPARED TO OPEN. 00:37.927 --> 00:39.701 NEW YORK CITY WITH A POSITIVITY 00:39.702 --> 00:41.261 RATE OF LESS THAN 1%. 00:41.263 --> 00:42.305 THEN AFTER LOOKING AT COMMUNITY 00:42.339 --> 00:44.732 TRANSMISSION RATE, YOU HAVE TO 00:44.733 --> 00:47.000 THINK ABOUT THE RESOURCES THAT 00:47.035 --> 00:48.624 SCHOOLS HAVE, VENTILATION, 00:48.626 --> 00:51.021 MASKS, BEING ABLE TO SEPARATE 00:51.022 --> 00:52.541 AND COHORT STUDENTS INTO SMALLER 00:52.542 --> 00:54.005 GROUPS, HAVING SPACE AS WELL AS 00:54.039 --> 00:55.012 SCHOOL NURSES. 00:55.046 --> 00:57.230 SO ALL OF THOSE FACTORS ARE 00:57.231 --> 00:58.848 INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT FOR PARENTS 00:58.849 --> 01:01.046 TO CONSIDER WHEN DECIDING TO 01:01.081 --> 01:03.103 SEND THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL. 01:03.137 --> 01:05.593 >> LINDA DARLING HAMMOND, WHAT 01:05.594 --> 01:07.713 DID YOU ADVICE JOE BIDEN NEEDED 01:07.747 --> 01:09.197 TO BE DONE FOR THE REOPENING OF 01:09.231 --> 01:09.595 SCHOOLS? 01:09.596 --> 01:11.670 >> WELL, THERE IS A COUPLE OF 01:11.705 --> 01:12.853 THINGS THAT WE NEED. 01:12.888 --> 01:14.761 CERTAINLY WE NEED ALL OF THE 01:14.762 --> 01:16.688 THINGS THAT THE DOCTOR JUST 01:16.690 --> 01:18.361 LISTED IN SCHOOLS IN ORDER TO 01:18.362 --> 01:20.227 MAKE THEM SAFE. 01:20.228 --> 01:22.501 AND THERE ARE COSTS ASSOCIATED 01:22.502 --> 01:24.194 WITH THOSE THINGS. 01:24.195 --> 01:27.769 PLUS FAR THE RECOVERY ACT THAT 01:27.770 --> 01:30.117 HAS BEEN PASSED HAS SPENT LESS 01:30.118 --> 01:32.138 THAN 1% OF THAT MONEY ON 01:32.172 --> 01:33.527 SUPPORTING SCHOOLS TO GET THE 01:33.562 --> 01:34.782 RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED TO BE 01:34.816 --> 01:35.556 ABLE TO OPEN. 01:35.590 --> 01:37.007 IN ADDITION TO THE THINGS THAT 01:37.008 --> 01:38.725 WERE JUST MENTIONED, THERE IS 01:38.759 --> 01:40.544 THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL CLEANING 01:40.578 --> 01:42.633 AND DISINFECTING AND THERE IS A 01:42.668 --> 01:44.137 NEED FOR ADEQUATE TESTING AND 01:44.171 --> 01:46.456 TRACING SO THAT IF THERE ARE 01:46.457 --> 01:48.842 CASES THEY CAN BE IMMEDIATELY 01:48.877 --> 01:50.635 DEALT WITH IN QUARANTINE. 01:50.669 --> 01:52.833 SO WE NEED THE FUNDING THAT’S 01:52.867 --> 01:55.552 BEEN HELD UP IN THE CONGRESS TO 01:55.553 --> 01:57.659 GET TO SCHOOLS SO THAT THOSE 01:57.693 --> 01:59.654 THINGS ARE AVAILABLE. 01:59.655 --> 02:02.205 WE ALSO NEED CLEARER GUIDANCE 02:02.206 --> 02:05.316 FROM THE CDC ABOUT THE LEVEL OF 02:05.317 --> 02:07.115 INFECTION AT WHICH A COMMUNITY 02:07.117 --> 02:09.715 CAN SAFELY OPEN SCHOOLS AND THE 02:09.750 --> 02:12.029 WAYS IN WHICH THEY SHOULD TREAT 02:12.063 --> 02:13.386 CASES FOR QUARANTINING AND 02:13.421 --> 02:15.353 CLOSING DOWN WHEN THERE ARE 02:15.355 --> 02:16.865 CASES THAT OCCUR IN SCHOOLS. 02:16.899 --> 02:18.400 ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE BEING 02:18.435 --> 02:19.780 TAKEN UP BY THE STATES. 02:19.815 --> 02:21.858 BUT RIGHT NOW THE STATES HAVE 02:21.893 --> 02:25.001 HAD QUITE A BIG HIT IN TERMS OF 02:25.036 --> 02:27.348 THE ECONOMY, AND SO THEY ARE