During the height of the pandemic in NYC, many fled the City thinking that the school year will be better outside NYC. Now, it's looking like NYC is in a relatively decent situation. Schools in many parts of the country are not even going to reopen at all. I'm curious if you know of any places that are better situated to have a decent school year in 20-21.
I live in Vermont. We've had an average of 3 cases a day of Covid in the entire state for the past several days. There have been many with no new cases. We have one hospitalized patient with covid in the entire state. And no deaths in about 6 weeks. And yet our district is going back to school on a hybrid plan. Two days a week. Some districts are going back one day a week. I get that it makes sense to dip one's toe in the waters before diving in head first, but how good do the numbers have to BE to go back full time? In the height of the flu season we have worse numbers in terms of morbidity and mortality.
The reason why certain states are doing well is because they have been cautious. Every time we push this there are spikes. The goal is to keep Vermont et al. in the great position its in.
Just remember that the there will be an spike in cases again, so whatever they're planning now in terms of trying to maintain social distancing in schools, isn't only a reflection of our current situation but takes into account the expectation that things will deteriorate again, and hopefully we can slow it down by being careful. The usual suspects are in the same good position as NY - CT, ME, VT, NH, NJ - but it sounds like most of them are also considering blended schedules, which is smart.
Orange County, CA and we will be online for at least first half of the year and doubt we will go back at all (don‘t think privates will either).