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Biden to push schools to set up routine COVID testing for kids, staff

Only a fraction of schools have set up rapid testing programs so far

The Biden administration is launching a new effort with The Rockefeller Foundation to encourage schools to set up surveillance COVID testing for students and staff, ABC News has learned.

The effort, which will be led by the Education Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, comes seven months after President Joe Biden pledged $10 billion for testing by schools.

The idea is that school districts around the country, particularly elementary schools with large populations of unvaccinated children, would routinely test kids, teachers and other staff for COVID-19 to prevent the spread of the virus.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-push-schools-set-routine-covid-testing-kids/story?id=80860374

 

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