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. MORE: School districts struggle to establish COVID-19 testing, frustrating parentsMeanwhile, pediatric COVID cases increased this summer with many school districts reporting mass quarantines at the beginning of the school year. The new effort will provide schools with testing providers and other resources to make it easier to launch surveillance screening. Last month, an official from the foundation told ABC that many school districts haven’t known where to go to get help. Biden to push schools to set up routine COVID testing for kids, staff originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Source: ABC News October 29, 2021 20:10 UTC