Doctor Mike on You Tube (video published 07/26/2020)

Comment posted:07/26/2020


Due to a lack of effective leadership in Washington DC, we have 50 states with wildly divergent levels of infection and death from COVID-19. Betsy DeVos has not been very helpful (https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/07/12/do-what-i-want-betsy-devos-tells-school-districts-trying-open-2020-2) in giving us a workable program for school re-opening. By default it falls to each state to set up a tracking system for the spread of this disease, balance with the stats and re-evaluate schools being open at a central meeting several times a week. I disagree about a blanket (send all the children back to school) edict. As was said in this video, a hybrid of in-school and at-home learning is necessary. After decades of increasing pupil quantity per class, now we have to jump backwards to class sizes of 15 (perhaps 20 depending on room size) students per classroom. Ironic, sad and this situation we find ourselves in did not have to happen. We (the U.S.) need to swallow our pride and study how other nations have coped with this situation and not try to waste previous time "reinventing the wheel".  THANK YOU Doctor Mike for another invaluable video. Logic, science and patience seems to be in short supply along with COVID-19 infection and antibody tests.