As the nation braces for a torrent of COVID-19 infections caused by the new Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant, the White House today unveiled a new strategy to keep unvaccinated children in school rather than quarantining at home after a COVID-19 exposure.The Test to Stay strategy involves testing close contacts of a COVID-19 student at least twice during the week after the exposure.
If the contact tests negative, he or she can remain in school instead of waiting out a 2-week quarantine at home.At a White House press briefing today, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, outlined two CDC studies today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report showing how Test to Stay benefitted K-12 schools in Lake