{"id":54485,"date":"2020-08-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/corey-johnson-at-odds-with-de-blasio-on-covid-19-tests-for-students-staff\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T20:00:00","slug":"corey-johnson-at-odds-with-de-blasio-on-covid-19-tests-for-students-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/corey-johnson-at-odds-with-de-blasio-on-covid-19-tests-for-students-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"#Corey Johnson at odds with de Blasio on COVID-19 tests for students, staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Corey Johnson at odds with de Blasio on COVID-19 tests for students, staff<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 26, 2020 |<\/span> 4:00pm |<\/span> Updated August 26, 2020 | 4:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n All New York City public school students and staff should be tested for the coronavirus before entering school in September, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s endorsement of mandatory COVID-19 testing puts him in sync with the United Federation of Teachers, which has called for a universal testing and tracing program as a precondition for the reopening of schools during the lingering pandemic.<\/p>\n

Johnson said he backed sweeping testing of 1 million students as well as staffers when asked about the Los Angeles school district\u2019s decision to require mandatory testing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we should be doing that. We should have all of these tests lined up and prioritized for families and children and people that work in schools across the city,\u201d Johnson said on Brian Lehrer\u2019s WNYC radio show.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we don\u2019t want to be in a situation where you have an outbreak or you have multiple cases in a school where it gets shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson, who is running for mayor next year, said many students from immigrant and lower-income families live in multi-generational households that include grandparents and mandatory testing could help curb the spread of the killer bug. He said there\u2019s evidence that older and often asymptomatic teenage students are more likely to spread the virus to adults.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t want to be in a situation where kids are coming home and infecting their grandparents or parents. \u2026 We have to take every measure possible, like the testing you mention that they\u2019re doing in LA, to give people peace of mind and to have the most accurate, up-to-date picture of where things stand for families and people that work in a school building,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday he\u2019s only encouraging everyone to get tested voluntarily at the city\u2019s free public COVID-19 testing sites. He has resisted imposing a mandatory program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really think at this point we have the strongest plan anywhere. It has not been the guidance around the world or the practice to do mandatory testing. Equally honestly, it\u2019s not something the union was looking for or was comfortable with for quite a while,\u201d de Blasio said.<\/p>\n

He insisted that \u201cwe\u2019re moving forward together\u201d with the UFT to have a safe school reopening despite intense pushback from teachers and principals who\u2019ve complained that the Department of Education\u2019s safety protocols to date are deficient.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019d like to emphasize is what we\u2019ve been talking about for weeks and months now. We now have a very high level of free testing available here in New York City. Any New Yorker can get it anytime for free [at] over 200 locations and we\u2019re going to be really amplifying that in the next days as the time frame becomes particularly pertinent to the opening of school,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want the maximum number of educators and staff to get tested. We want the maximum number of kids to get tested and the best way to do that is to keep encouraging it and giving out that message that it\u2019s available and free. We think this system is the best way to get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Johnson also said he was open to requiring temperature checks before or when students arrive at school after a retired school nurse called and suggested the idea. High fever is considered an early symptom of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should think about doing that at schools,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we decide not to do that, families should be doing that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor\u2019s reopening plan does require that temperature checks be conducted randomly at schools.<\/p>\n

Johnson noted that rapid temperature checks \u2014 scanning the foreheads of employees, customers and students \u2014 is a widespread practice conducted by employers, stores and schools in the US and across the globe.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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