Classes were suspended as soon as classes started, and the epidemic situation reappeared in many American schools

novel coronavirus pneumonia continues to deteriorate in the United States, and new cases in many states are rising. In such a grim situation, the trump administration still insists on the resumption of school classes. American multi state schools reopened at the beginning of this month, followed by the outbreak and spread of the campus epidemic. According to the Washington Post, officials in some states in the United States said that there are still many problems in reopening schools, such as selective wearing of masks by students and staff, inability to maintain social distance in crowded corridors, and limited ventilation conditions in some old classrooms. the Washington Post points out that in states where the number of daily infections has increased significantly in recent weeks, such as Hawaii, South Dakota, and Illinois, the challenge of child epidemic prevention is greater. Just as politicians, school leaders and parents are debating whether classroom teaching should be resumed, some schools that have already opened have to be closed again because of confirmed cases. According to ABC, nearly 1200 students and staff in Georgia have been isolated due to exposure to the epidemic. Two Mississippi high school students were suspended after posting photos and videos of their school’s crowded hallways online. Subsequently, the school nine people tested positive for the virus, the school decided to close for a week. In Cherokee County, not far from Georgia, a student tested positive and had to close a few days after school opened. The same thing happened in Indiana, Louisiana and so on. according to the Washington Post, the plan to reopen schools advocated by the trump administration has moved forward, and states that have implemented them earlier have faced a series of failures. But the trump administration still claims that a full return to school is essential for children’s academic and social well-being. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, said on the 16th that he did not think the new coronavirus would pose a serious risk to children, especially compared with influenza virus. Scott Gottlieb, former director of the U.S. Food and drug administration, warned that it would be unwise to compare the number of children who died of the new coronavirus with the number of children who died of influenza each year. “Novel coronavirus pneumonia is diagnosed in about 330 thousand children, which may be greatly underestimated, and about 3 million of children may have been infected.” “We still have a lot of things we don’t know about the impact of the new coronavirus on children,” Gottlieb said. I think we should be more cautious in comparing the new coronavirus with the influenza virus. ” According to the Washington Post on the 17th, the number and proportion of new coronavirus infections among children under 17 years old in the United States has been “gradually increasing” from March to July, according to the latest epidemic prevention guidelines of the United States Centers for Disease Control and prevention. In novel coronavirus pneumonia, children account for more than 7% of the total cases confirmed by US health experts. However, due to the lack of extensive nucleic acid testing, the real data of children’s infection in the United States is not clear. Recently, there is evidence that the viral load of children may be equal to or higher than that of adults, and children can effectively transmit the virus at home and in summer camp. Due to previous restrictions, such as home orders and school closures, there was less transmission among children in spring and early summer. As the new school year begins, they will face a higher risk of infection. According to the Washington Post, Amy Westmoreland, a nurse at a Georgia School in the United States, chose to leave because she refused to defend the school’s reopening plan. Westmoreland’s school in Borden County, Georgia, has a plan to reopen this summer. In her opinion, the leadership of the school still did not recognize the line. In the middle of the month, when I saw in the guidance of the staff that the school would reopen and asked me, as a medical practitioner, to defend this decision, I knew that I could not. I quit my job. ” Westmoreland points out that the school does not require temperature checks at the entrance, nor does it force people to wear masks. Although the number of new cases in Borden county has been on the rise in the past two months, there are still some people in the county who are skeptical about the severity of the new outbreak, which is a disaster in itself. In this case, it seems inevitable that someone will bring the virus to the school, and it will be sooner or later that the school will have an outbreak. according to Westmoreland, the emergency measures taken by the school are very simple and there is no independent isolation zone. “There are more than 1300 teachers and students in this school, but I am the only nurse.” “I didn’t have the time and energy to follow complex hygiene procedures, and the school didn’t equip me with professional protective equipment,” Westmoreland said The way of contact is also very backward in the region. Westmoreland said she was asked to write down details such as the address and close contacts of each confirmed child. “This kind of tracking is meaningless.” “It’s hard for adults to remember the details of the past 14 days, let alone children,” Westmoreland said Westmoreland said that if the school could not restart in a safe way, she would be more likely to catch the new coronavirus at work and unknowingly transmit the virus to other students. “The government has not been able to control the epidemic, people are isolated at home without government support, and we have to deal with it in chaos. I refuse to be an accomplice in endangering the lives and health of children. ”