{"id":1128822,"date":"2021-12-17T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128822"},"modified":"2021-12-17T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:59:10","slug":"report-joe-biden-to-push-biweekly-coronavirus-tests-for-children-amid-school-closures-omicron-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-joe-biden-to-push-biweekly-coronavirus-tests-for-children-amid-school-closures-omicron-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Joe Biden to Push Biweekly Coronavirus Tests for Children amid School Closures, Omicron Fears\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-joe-biden-to-push-biweekly-coronavirus-tests-for-children-amid-school-closures-omicron-fears%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128822&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden on Friday will reportedly announce biweekly coronavirus tests for school children amid school districts shutting down over omicron variant fears.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Biden\u2019s promise in 2020 to shut down the virus, schools around the nation are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/parents\/parents\/schools-are-closing-country-omicron-surge-rcna9030\">closing<\/a> early for Christmas break.&nbsp;Biden perhaps worries his unfulfilled promise will be further delayed by school districts not returning to order after the scheduled break.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_16446620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Biden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16446620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Biden.jpg\" alt=\"US President Joe Biden(C) and First Lady Jill Biden(R) visit the classroom of fifth-grade teacher Cindy Bertamini, at Yorktown Elementary School in Yorktown, Virginia on May 3, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN \/ AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden(C) and First Lady Jill Biden (R) visit the classroom of fifth-grade teacher Cindy Bertamini, at Yorktown Elementary School in Yorktown, Virginia on May 3, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a result, Biden has reportedly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/biden-administration-push-test-stay-policy-keep-kids-school-rcna3190\">rolled out<\/a> a new scheme to likely pacify teachers\u2019 unions\u2019 strangle on the Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is reportedly called \u201ctest-to-stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cInstead of mandatory quarantines for students identified as close contacts of a Covid-positive peer, those students could remain in school if they test negative for the virus at least twice during the week after an exposure,\u201d NBC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City public school district has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/school-life\/health-and-wellness\/covid-information\/daily-covid-case-map\">closed<\/a> about 875 classrooms before districts typically break for Christmas. Many of the children are being forced to learn at home by teaching themselves via e-learning.<\/p>\n<p>Former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),&nbsp;Dr. Richard Besser, told NBC News that children should be protected at all costs despite the death and hospitalization rate among children remaining extremely low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that the best place for children is in-school learning, and if it can be done safely for a child who may have been exposed to Covid, then we need to do that,\u201d Besser said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/17\/anthony-fauci-predicts-more-hospitalizations-deaths-over-winter-as-omicron-dominates\/\">warned<\/a> Americans on Thursday that the next weeks and months could see a spike in hospitalizations and deaths due to coronavirus variants.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15826810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fauci.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15826810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fauci.jpg\" alt=\"Fauci\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">White House Chief Medical Adviser on Covid-19 Dr. Anthony Fauci listens as US President Joe Biden (out of frame) speaks about the 50 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine shot administered in the US during an event commemorating the milestone in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, February 25, 2021 (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBesides the toll of suffering and death which will inevitably go up if in fact we have that convergence in the winter months of flu and omicron and delta, we could get our hospital systems overwhelmed,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden on Friday will reportedly announce biweekly coronavirus tests for school children amid school districts shutting down over omicron variant fears. 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