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This is our biweekly briefing on the pandemic, vetted by John Bailey. .

This Week鈥檚 Top Story

• “Babies and toddlers are being diagnosed with speech and language delays in greater numbers, part of developmental and academic setbacks for children of all ages after the pandemic. Children born during or slightly before the pandemic are more likely to have problems communicating compared with those born earlier, studies show. Speech therapists and doctors are struggling to meet the increased need for evaluation and treatment.”
• “In an analysis of nearly 2.5 million children younger than 5 years old, researchers 鈥� found that for each year of age, first-time speech delay diagnoses increased by an average of 1.6 times between 2018-19 and 2021-22. The highest increase was among 1-year-olds, the researchers said.”
• 鈥淵oung children with delayed speech should get treatment as early as possible because children with communication problems tend to have more difficulty in school later on, speech and language experts said.鈥�

The Big Three

Detroit Schools Got $1.3 Billion in COVID Relief. It Might Not Be Enough

• “With more than half the money already out the door, less than 1% has gone toward bringing students back to classrooms, according to officials, despite two-thirds of the district鈥檚 53,400 students last year missing school at a threshold researchers say puts them academically at risk.”
• “Detroit is using COVID stimulus money to cover $700 million worth of expenses it typically pays for with its general fund, leaving the saved cash in its reserves with no spending deadline. The size of its general fund has swollen over 500% since stimulus funds began flowing and will be drawn down over the next five years, the district said.”

• “High-poverty school districts (46%) are much more likely to say they plan to spend remaining stimulus aid on addressing learning loss in elementary-grades math than are low-poverty school systems (29%).”
• “District and school leaders from high-poverty school systems will put a greater priority on learning recovery in secondary-grades math (40%) than will their peers in low-poverty systems (25%).”
• “K-12 officials from school districts in the Southern U.S. (46%) and Western states (36%) are significantly more likely to spend remaining stimulus money on learning recovery in elementary math than are those based in the Midwest (24%) and Northeast (21%).”

• 鈥淎mericans are much more confident in routine childhood vaccines than COVID-19 shots, but support for vaccine requirements in schools has slipped from pre-pandemic levels, according to a new .鈥�
• 鈥淲hat [Pew researchers] found: 88% of Americans believe the benefits of childhood vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella outweigh the risks, compared to 62% who have the same views about COVID-19 vaccines.鈥�
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Federal Updates

Department of Health and Human Services: Announced “.” Innovative, community-led solutions to advance the mental health of children and youth. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• to help protect people from respiratory infections, with a goal of at least five air changes each hour and upgraded filters.
• for K-12 Schools and Early Care and Education Programs to Support Safe In-Person Learning鈥�

COVID-19 Research

• “Now entering its fourth year, the COVID-19 pandemic remains one of the most significant threats to global public health, at a cost of more than 6.5 million lives lost and trillions of dollars in lost economic output to date.”
• “In addition to direct effects of the pandemic, resultant economic, human security, political and national security implications of COVID-19 continue to strain recovery efforts, presenting both known and unforeseen challenges that probably will ripple through society and the global economy during the next year and for years to come.”
• “Countries globally remain vulnerable to the emergence or introduction of a novel pathogen that could cause a devastating new pandemic.”
• “The [intelligence community] continues to investigate how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, first infected humans, maintaining a Community of Interest across agencies.”

• “A new nationwide French comparing outcomes for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) for either influenza or COVID-19 due to acute respiratory failure shows that . The study was published yesterday in the Journal of Infection.”

City & State News

Kansas: .

New York: during the first half of the school year.

Rhode Island: “The Barrington School Committee has .”

• “Brittany DiOrio, Stephanie Hines and Kerri Thurber will each receive a payment of $33,333, a spokesperson for the school district announced. 鈥� Additionally, they will receive back pay: $65,000 for Hines, $128,000 for Thurber and $150,000 for DiOrio. The three teachers’ legal counsel will receive $50,000 in attorney’s fees.”

Utah: .

Viewpoints and Resources

: Via FutureEd with 86 pages of promising solutions. 

With New Grants, 5 States Could Lead the Way to Widespread, Effective Tutoring: Via Kevin Huffman

: Via Chalkbeat

: Via EdChoice and MorningConsult

: NYT essay by the members of Biden-Harris Transition COVID Advisory Board

: Via McKinsey

鈥� And on a Lighter Note

Big Sports Weekend:

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MICHAEL BLOCK HOLE-IN-ONE鈥硷笍

YOU COULDN'T WRITE A BETTER SCRIPT 馃憦

— ESPN (@espn)

• New world record for the : 856 feet.

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Disclosure: John Bailey is an adviser to the Walton Family Foundation, which provides financial support to 蜜桃影视.

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