COVID-19 recommendations represent a turn away from the 6-foot standard that has forced some schools to remove desks, stagger scheduling and take other steps to keep children away from one another.Three feet “gives school districts greater flexibility to have more students in for a prolonged period of time,” said Kevin Quinn, director of maintenance and facilities at Mundelein High School in suburban Chicago.
U.S. to hit goal of administering 100M COVID-19 vaccine doses on Friday, Biden says In recent months, schools in some states have been disregarding the CDC guidelines, using 3 feet as their standard.
Studies of what happened in some of them helped sway the agency, said Greta Massetti, who leads the CDC’s community interventions task.