Education Law

H1N1 tools for schools

BoardBuzz has been watching what our friends at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been up to this week to help schools be ready to deal with H1N1 (aka swine flu) as schools open.  Today, they closed out the week by issuing updated guidelines for schools, plus a communications toolkit that will give school officials a leg up in dealing with a potential outbreak of flu. Earlier in the week, CDC posted an online reporting system for collecting reports of school closures.  You can check out all the latest information at NSBA’s update on H1N1 resources for schools.   And CDC has told BoardBuzz that coming soon are guidelines for holding vaccination clinics in schools. Remember. You heard it here first.

In the meantime, remember that sneezing and coughing “etiquette” are important for stopping the spread of any airborne disease (as BoardBuzz shared with you earlier today). Just ask a kindergartener you know what you should do when you sneeze or cough. If you don’t know a kindergartener, take a look another video we found on YouTube that shows you how to do it.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on August 07, 2009 (boomark / email).