The media has been warning us for a while now that the COVID crisis is only getting worse. The medical experts have long predicted this would happen come fall.
The reason for the spike is that the cooler temperatures bring Americans back indoors in larger numbers. That and the holidays meant to bring us all closer together make it even more difficult to safely socially distance. Add the fact that a great many of our young ones will be headed back to school soon, and there’s a very real chance that we’re headed for a disaster.
New York City is looking to avoid a second round of being the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, and they’re taking serious action to that end.
New York City’s schools will move to remote learning only as the city tries to tamp down a growing number of coronavirus cases, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.
The shuttering of the nation’s largest school system had been anticipated for days after de Blasio told parents on Friday to have a plan in place in case the city decided to close schools for in-person learning, NBC News New York reported. Remote learning will begin Thursday, the mayor said in breaking the news over Twitter.
“We’re in the middle of something really tough right now,” de Blasio said at a press briefing Monday. “We have put health and safety first, and we will put health and safety first.”
The mayor said the city would close classrooms if the citywide positivity rate, or the percent of Covid-19 tests that are positive, hits an average of 3%. That was reached on Wednesday.
All over the country, the number of COVID cases has continued to rise, with a huge spike in California and other midwestern states.
But due to New York’s population density, it’s a prime piece of real estate for COVID to grow in.
