On Wednesday, the Department of Education hosted an advance screening of a new episode in the popular PBS Kids cartoon series, “Sid the Science Kid” called “Getting a Shot: You Can Do It!” regarding the H1N1 vaccination. Seated on colorful reading mats and oversized bean bag chairs, children from across the Washington, D.C., area participated [...]
Category Archives: Flu information
Flu Season School Guidance
August 7, 2009 – 10:08 am
Secretaries Sebelius, Duncan, and Napolitano hosted a press conference this morning to release updated guidance for schools during the upcoming influenza season. The school guidance is a part of a broader national framework to respond to novel H1N1 influenza, which includes encouraging people to be vaccinated against the virus and to take other actions to [...]
Fall Flu Season, H1N1 Virus
July 9, 2009 – 3:40 pm
It’s time to start planning and preparing for the fall flu season and the ongoing H1N1 flu outbreak. That’s why, today, the Obama Administration held the H1N1 Influenza Preparedness Summit.
More than 50 states, tribes, and territories joined federal officials and agencies for the summit to kick off nation-wide efforts to be ready. [...]
CDC Flu Guidance Recommends that Schools Reopen
May 5, 2009 – 3:17 pm
With every day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has learned more about the 2009 H1N1 flu virus, its severity in the United States, and its potential impact on U.S. schools. And this afternoon, based on information that CDC scientists have collected about this new strain of influenza, CDC updated the interim guidance [...]
Listen in on Flu Conference Call with ED and CDC
May 1, 2009 – 10:45 am
Education leaders from across the country joined a conference call Thursday to discuss flu response with officials from the Department of Education and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Representing chief state school officers, superintendents, principals, teachers, nurses, higher education and other key groups, more than 1,300 people dialed in. ED.gov has a recording [...]
Additional Flu Resources for School Leaders Seeking Guidance
April 29, 2009 – 7:02 pm
ED.gov now offers even more guidance for school leaders on reducing the spread of the flu known as H1N1—commonly called “swine flu”—and for dealing with any suspected cases of the virus at their schools.
You’ll now find answers to Frequently Asked Questions here (PDF) on ED.gov’s page on emergency planning for influenza outbreak. Culled from questions [...]
Public Health Officials Offer Swine Flu Guidance to Schools
April 27, 2009 – 6:55 pm
Schools can be leading indicators of public health outbreaks, so the Department of Education hosted a conference call this afternoon to guide education officials on how to identify, contain, report and prevent swine influenza in school facilities. Public-health and epidemiology experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and President Obama’s Homeland Security [...]
