Quarantine efforts will keep homeless students from accessing shelter and basic necessities.
. For these students, going to school may be their only source for regular hot meals, medical services, and other basic needs. These homeless students arebecause it doesn’t just keep them from school for a couple weeks — quarantine efforts will keep homeless students from accessing shelter and basic necessities.
If one of these students were to become infected with the virus, their ability to self-quarantine is at a disadvantage. And, if schools close, New York students will suffer the most even if they never come into contact with COVID-19. But, beyond just students who cannot afford to take time off from school, parents of those students in New York may struggle to take time off, withthroughout the state. This would leave children at risk of being both unsupervised and unprotected.
Providing consistent meals and a safe place for children are some of the main factors contributing to why government officials are considering long-term closures a “last resort.” Currently, only schools with a confirmed COVID-19 case are closing, and they are only doing so for 24 hours while experts decide if they need to be closed longer. So far, no New York City public school has reached the need of long-term closure. As of right now,in New York State are in New York City.
. No children died during the SARS outbreak in 2002 and few children even developed MERS which was responsible for 858 deaths since 2012, reports the. However, knowing that the virus appears to not affect children to the same extent does not mean that they cannot be carriers andNew York City mayor Bill De Blasio said there werein the city. “To me, it’s a high bar for closure,” De Blasio told CNN on Monday.
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