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• and both submitted emergency use authorization applications to the Food and Drug Administration for BA.4/BA.5 Omicron-targeting bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccines.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scheduled a two-day meeting of its advisory panel of experts for .
• , sources say.
• 鈥淭he government plans to offer the new Pfizer booster to everyone 12 and older while limiting the new Moderna shot to adults,鈥� according to .
• : “For the first time, the FDA is planning to base its decision about whether to authorize new boosters on studies involving mice instead of humans. 鈥楩or the FDA to rely on mouse data is just bizarre, in my opinion,鈥� says John Moore, an immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. 鈥楳ouse data are not going to be predictive in any way of what you would see in humans.鈥� “
• : “It鈥檚 actually striking that in two months from the June 28 FDA meeting, there is a BA.5 vaccine booster made at scale. That is finally in keeping with all the excitement about the plasticity of the mRNA vaccine platform, that it could be ideal for rapid updating.”

The Big Three

Learning Delays at Every Grade Level

• The released a new 鈥渞eview of evidence.鈥�
• 鈥淥n average, children at all grade levels have suffered significant delays in learning.鈥� 
• 鈥淟earning delays occurred at every grade level, but it鈥檚 unclear which age group has been most negatively affected.鈥�
• 鈥淟earning delays were greatest in 2019-20, but many students also lost ground in 2021-22.鈥�
• 鈥淟earning delays are closely related to the amount of time students spent out of school or in remote instruction.鈥�
• 鈥淟ow-income students and students of color, who on average spent the most time in remote instruction, experienced the greatest learning delays and fell even further behind their white, advantaged peers.鈥�

• “ that at-home rapid antigen tests can deliver false negative results and people who need tests should plan to do so more than once to make sure they are not 鈥榰nknowingly spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus to others.鈥� 鈥�
• “The FDA now advises that people who plan to use at-home tests get several of them so they can test more than once. For people with COVID-19 symptoms who test at home and receive a negative result, the agency recommends taking a second at-home COVID-19 test, 48 hours after the first, for a total of at least two tests.”
• “For those who suspect a COVID-19 exposure but have no symptoms, the FDA now recommends up to three tests, each separated by a 48-hour period.”

• “No reports of myocarditis or death after receipt of dose 3 were received.”
• 鈥淎mong children aged 5-11 years, serious adverse events after dose 3 are rare.鈥�
• The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System 鈥渞eceived 581 reports of adverse events after receipt of a Pfizer-BioNTech third dose by children aged 5-11 years; 578 (99.5%) reports were considered nonserious and the most common events reported were vaccine administration errors.”
• “In the week after third dose vaccination, 6.9% (225) of enrolled children were reported to be unable to attend school and 12.1% (392) were unable to complete daily activities.”

Federal Updates

Back to School

• White House Fact Sheet: and Stay Safely Open All Year Long.
• Adviser Dr. Ashish K. Jha shared a .

City & State News

• CALIFORNIA: , or about 11%, missed the first day of school.

• COLORADO: invest over $1.6 million in mental health.

• NEVADA: Clark County School District .
  
• OREGON: 鈥�,” state Department of Education Director Colt Gill said this week.

• TEXAS: Houston district鈥檚 improved state rating is partly , officials say.  

COVID-19 Research

• Pfizer effectiveness with under-5s: Pfizer’s vaccine was in protecting children younger than 5 as Omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday. More via .

• New vaccine approved: for adolescents aged 12 through 17.

• Monkeypox: for schools.

• Long COVID: Long COVID is relatively rare in children and teens, according to a new .

• Vaccination rates: COVID-19 vaccines are uncommon for U.S. children under age 5, according to .

Learning Recovery Research

• The MAP Accelerator tool developed by Khan Academy and NWEA helped boost scores across all grades, races and poverty levels in grades 3-8. ()
• “For example, fifth-grade students who used MAP Accelerator for 30 minutes per week grew an average 18% more than projected, gaining 1.7 points above pre-pandemic norms.”

• . More via 麻豆精品.
• “Analyzing data from 3 million students assigned lessons through a widely used literacy program, the nonprofits ReadWorks and TNTP found that during the 2020-21 school year 鈥� the first full year after the start of the pandemic 鈥� students were assigned work below their grade level a third of the time.鈥�
• 鈥淐hildren in high-poverty schools were given less challenging materials more often than their affluent peers 鈥� even when they had already mastered grade-level assignments.”

Was 2022鈥檚 Summer Learning 鈥楨xplosion鈥� Enough to Reverse COVID Losses?

• “93% of districts, according to Burbio, and 87%, according to CRPE, offered summer learning programs this year.”
• “79% of school systems that had programs provided them at no cost to families.”
• “The average program length was 154 hours, just under four weeks and roughly equivalent to 12% of the academic school year. However, some offerings only covered about 30 hours, while others made up nearly 350 total hours.”
• “School leaders estimated that 18-20% of their students enrolled, compared to 13-16% during a typical year.”

…And on a Lighter Note

It’s Back to School: .

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This is our weekly briefing on the pandemic, vetted by John Bailey. . For even more COVID policy and education news, .

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