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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 4765735" data-attributes="member: 1940"><h3><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/los-angeles-area-pediatricians-call-for-schools-to-immediately-reopen-despite-state-covid-guidelines/ar-BB1dmEce" target="_blank">Los Angeles Area Pediatricians Call For Schools to &#039;Immediately Reopen,&#039; Despite State COVID Guidelines </a></h3>&quot;Schools should open immediately,&quot; Dr. Alice Kuo, Executive Board member of the Southern California Chapter and Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA said in the statement reviewed by Newsweek.&nbsp;&quot;We are causing undue harm to millions of children by keeping schools closed for this long,&quot; she added.&nbsp;The group represents about 1,500 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical sub-specialists and pediatric surgical specialists in the Los Angeles County area.&quot;Schools are safe when adherence to mitigation practices are in place, such as mask wearing, hand hygiene, social distancing, and limitation of potentially higher-risk extracurricular activities,&quot; the statement said. &quot;A year into the pandemic, and after great effort and expense, schools know how to implement mitigation.&quot;&nbsp;The call for action falls in line with last week&#039;s report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said that schools across the country should resume in-person <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-recall-opening-california-schools-teachers-unions-1565751" target="_blank">as soon as possible.</a>&nbsp;In the report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/cdc" target="_blank">CDC</a> said its researchers found &quot;little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission&quot; when proper safety precautions were followed.&nbsp;To further support their claim, the Los Angeles pediatricians cited a December survey of more than 500 teachers who reported &quot;low levels of student attendance and engagement&quot; due to school closures, and said children are suffering emotional and mental impacts &quot;related to social isolation, anxiety, lack of structure.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 4765735, member: 1940"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/los-angeles-area-pediatricians-call-for-schools-to-immediately-reopen-despite-state-covid-guidelines/ar-BB1dmEce'][SIZE=5]Los Angeles Area Pediatricians Call For Schools to 'Immediately Reopen,' Despite State COVID Guidelines [/SIZE][/URL][/HEADING] "Schools should open immediately," Dr. Alice Kuo, Executive Board member of the Southern California Chapter and Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA said in the statement reviewed by [I]Newsweek.[/I] [I]"[/I]We are causing undue harm to millions of children by keeping schools closed for this long," she added. The group represents about 1,500 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical sub-specialists and pediatric surgical specialists in the Los Angeles County area. "Schools are safe when adherence to mitigation practices are in place, such as mask wearing, hand hygiene, social distancing, and limitation of potentially higher-risk extracurricular activities," the statement said. "A year into the pandemic, and after great effort and expense, schools know how to implement mitigation." The call for action falls in line with last week's report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said that schools across the country should resume in-person [URL='https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-recall-opening-california-schools-teachers-unions-1565751']as soon as possible.[/URL] In the report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the [URL='https://www.newsweek.com/topic/cdc']CDC[/URL] said its researchers found "little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission" when proper safety precautions were followed. To further support their claim, the Los Angeles pediatricians cited a December survey of more than 500 teachers who reported "low levels of student attendance and engagement" due to school closures, and said [B]children are suffering emotional and mental impacts "related to social isolation, anxiety, lack of structure."[/B] [/QUOTE]

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