Last year, we believed that the surge from October through February was caused by seasonal changes. They hit communities with mask mandates, and communities without. One of the frustrating things about the pandemic has been our inability, even at this late date, to understand why surges occur. Most states didn’t see any significant rise in COVID cases last fall until well into October. Last year, no surge happened in September either. The Delta surge began long before classes resumed, and looking at the state-by-state data, you’d be hard-pressed to find bumps that can be pinned on the beginning of the semester. Then classes began, and … widespread doom never really came-or, if it did, it didn’t come from schools. Even so, people continued to worry about the danger that schools posed to society. And many schools that reopened were able to implement measures that other institutions struggled with. Read: COVID-vaccine mandates for kids are comingīy the start of the next school year, vaccines were widely available for anyone age 12 or older. Given that kids could bring infections home, even if they weren’t at huge risk themselves, many schools remained online, in full or in part. needed to act before things got out of control.īy the fall of 2020, still without vaccinations, many older Americans continued to be at significant risk.
The American public could see the disaster unfolding in Italy, and many people believed that the U.S.
Public-health experts didn’t know enough about how COVID was spread or how contagious it was, and the health-care system was overwhelmed in parts of the country.
When the coronavirus pandemic first hit, many states and towns closed everything, including schools.
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