Students at Wilson High School in West Lawn, Pennsylvania, on October 22. The school has been taking precautions for in-person classes to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. | Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle/Getty Images

What needs to be in Biden’s plan to reopen schools safely in the pandemic, according to an epidemiologist.

As America enters another phase of rapid growth in cases and hospitalizations in its Covid-19 epidemic, among the mounting losses is public education. Schools around the nation are being forced to return to remote learning, or have never returned to an in-person model. Without a national policy, states and even individual school districts have been left to navigate the high-stakes and difficult decision of whether to proceed with in-person, hybrid, or remote education alone.

Unfortunately, many of these decisions seem to be driven by partisanship, rather than solid public health guidance