Students will head back to school amid rising COVID cases, again
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Some 56 million kids will return to the classroom in the coming weeks amid a backdrop of rising COVID cases and hospitalizations. Here are three things to know.
"Sicker, younger, quicker" is how hospital executive Steve Edwards explained a sudden explosion this month in COVID patients in Springfield, Missouri. It's against this backdrop -- rising COVID cases due to an aggressive new variant and lagging vaccination numbers -- that the nation's estimated 56 million students grades K-12 return to the classroom full-time in the coming weeks, many of them for the first time since the pandemic shuttered schools in March 2020. Here's what to know about schools reopening: Only of a quarter of children ages 12-15 are fully immunizedMore Related News