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Monday 30 noveMber 2020

remarks, adding that it's died. kindergarten programs
"not too late" for people Fauci said the arrival of will resume classes Dec.
traveling back home after vaccines offers a "light at 7, a week from Monday,
Thanksgiving to help stop the end of the tunnel." This the mayor said. Others will
the spread of the virus by coming week, the Advisory take longer to reopen their
wearing masks, staying dis- Committee on Immuniza- doors.
tant from others and avoid- tion Practices will meet with The plan for reopening mid-
ing large groups of people. the Centers for Disease dle and high schools is still
"So we know we can do Control and Prevention to being developed, de Blasio
something about it, par- discuss a rollout of the vac- said.
ticularly now as we get into cine, he said. About 190,000 students
the colder season and as He added that President- will be eligible to return to
we approach the Christ- elect Joe Biden should fo- classrooms in the first round
mas holidays," he said. cus on distributing vaccines of reopening, just a fraction
The number of new CO- in an "efficient and equita- of the more than 1 million
VID-19 cases reported in ble way." Fauci also said he total pupils in the system.
the United States topped planned to push the new The great majority of par-
200,000 for the first time Fri- administration for a rigor- ents have opted to have
day. The highest previous ous testing program. their kids learn remotely by
daily count was 196,000 on "We've got to go beyond computer.
Nov. 20, according to data the symptomatic people De Blasio said that many
from Johns Hopkins Univer- and get a better under- of those returning in person
sity. standing of the asymptom- will be able to attend five
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy Since January, when the atic transmission," he said. days of class a week, up
and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a news conference with
the coronavirus task force at the White House in Washington, first infections were report- Health care workers will from one to three days pre-
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Associated Press. ed in the U.S., the nation's likely be among the first viously.
total number of cases has to get the vaccine, with Elementary school students
Continued from Front NBC's "Meet the Press," surpassed 13 million. More the first vaccinations hap- attending in person will be
Fauci also appeared on where he made similar than 265,000 people have pening before the end of required to undergo fre-
December, "and then as quent testing for the virus.
we get into January and Previously, the city set a tar-
February and March, more get of testing 20% of teach-
and more," he said. ers and students in each
"So if we can hang to- school building once a
gether as a country and month. Now the testing will
do these kinds of things to be weekly.
blunt these surges until we The mayor said the city
get a substantial proportion was doing away with its
of the population vacci- previous trigger for closing
nated, we can get through schools, which was when
this," Fauci said. 3% or more of the virus tests
Other experts agreed that conducted in the city over
the coming weeks would a seven-day period came
be difficult, especially since back positive.
so many traveled over the New York exceeded that
holiday and held in-person threshold early in Novem-
dinners indoors. ber, and things have slightly
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White worsened since then. More
House coronavirus re- than 9,300 residents have
sponse coordinator, said tested positive for the virus
Sunday on CBS' "Face the over the past seven days
Nation" that Americans .q
who traveled this past week
should try to avoid people
over 65. She said that those
who were around others
for Thanksgiving "have to
assume that you were ex-
posed and you became in-
fected and you really need
to get tested in the next
week."
In New York, some ele-
mentary schools and pre-