When students finally return to school, sweeping changes will be in place to help stop the spread of coronavirus
Items such as masks and hand sanitizer will be familiar sights in stuffed backpacks. Classes and school buses will have fewer people while some office meetings will be conducted by video conference, experts say.Although school districts will be looking to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for guidelines, schools must keep the virus from entering campuses.
Read MoreReducing person-to-person transmission in schools will be a priority, and educators will have to set up smaller classrooms, shut down commonly touched areas, ensure constant hand washing and disinfecting, and avoid sharing supplies, she said.When students get sick, they'll have to be quickly ushered out of schools.
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