The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention is thinking about revising its recommendation to distance six
feet in classrooms.
According to a Harvard study
published last week, 3-foot gaps are just as effective as 6-foot gaps when it
comes to preventing the transmission of COVID-19.
The study found no difference
in COVID-19 transmissions in Massachusetts schools when students distanced
three feet instead of the CDC-recommended
six feet.
Students in the study were
wearing masks.
The CDC isn't ready to
revise its recommendations just yet, but its director says the agency is
looking at the possibility. They are doing its own tests as more teachers get
vaccinated.
The World Health
Organization already recommends a distance of one meter.