President Joe Biden is planning a new push for school surveillance testing for COVID-19.
Meanwhile, pediatric COVID cases increased this summer with many school districts reporting mass quarantines at the beginning of the school year.Students are instructed in a classroom in a New York, Sept. 27, 2021.
According to details obtained by ABC News, the Rockefeller Foundation had already been helping schools to set up pilot programs to screen kids and staff for asymptomatic cases. The new effort will provide schools with testing providers and other resources to make it easier to launch surveillance screening.
Also, starting Nov. 2 through December, the Biden administration and The Rockefeller Foundation will host twice weekly sessions with experts to walk school districts through how to set up a testing program. Last month, an official from the foundation told ABC that many school districts haven’t known where to go to get help.
"In many states, there are a number of different testing vendors they [schools] can choose from," said Leah Perkinson, manager of the pandemics division at the Rockefeller Foundation, in a September interview."One of the most unfortunate parts about all of this is that there is a ton of guidance out there, but there’s just not a lot of awareness about what the choices are."
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