‘I Need an Army’: Across America, Schools Cram for Their Covid Tests
The New York Times
Some districts have established robust virus testing programs, but many others are struggling.
SAN ANTONIO — One recent Thursday, Ciara Brown, a junior at Fox Tech High School in San Antonio, stepped up to a small white table, pulled down her face mask and took a test that is still far from standard in American schools: a cotton swab up the nose.
“Testing is super-easy,” she said. “It’s not as scary as I thought it would be — it’s not a huge thing going up in your brain.”
The United States has struggled with Covid testing since the earliest days of the pandemic. Now, nearly two years in — and weeks into another Covid-disrupted school year — school systems across the nation are struggling with the role of testing in keeping children safe and in class.
