The Philadelphia Health Department is changing COVID-19 guidelines for schools. The health department says it's an attempt to keep schools open for in-person instruction.
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Health Department is changing COVID-19 guidelines for schools. The health department says it’s an attempt to keep schools open for in-person instruction.
The city had been using metrics and case counts to determine if a school would need to pause in-person learning. At the onset of the pandemic, a school seeing 3% of its population with in-school community spread would be paused. It moved to 10% in recent months.Now, with soaring COVID-19 cases due to the highly transmissible omicron variant, those same metrics will no longer be used.
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