| View this as a webpage Minnesota Department of Health July 30, 2021 COVID-19 Guidance for Schools With the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant, health and education officials recommend that schools follow CDC's guidance for COVID-19 prevention in K-12 schools this fall. The new Minnesota guidance, Best Practice Recommendations for COVID-19 Prevention in Schools for the 2021-22 School Year (PDF), protects students, teachers, staff, and other members of their households and reflects the importance of in-person learning. Key points of the guidance include: - All people ages 12 years and older should get vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to in-person school, sports, or other activities to protect themselves and people around them who cannot get vaccinated. Talk to a health care provider or Find Vaccine Locations near you.
- All students, teachers, staff, and visitors in school buildings should wear masks indoors regardless of vaccination status.
- Schools should maintain at least 3 feet of physical distance between students within classrooms whenever possible. When it is not possible to maintain 3 feet of distance between students, it is especially important to layer other prevention strategies.
- Students, teachers, and staff should stay home if they feel sick and should contact a health care provider for testing and care.
- Students, teachers, and staff who have been fully vaccinated do not need to stay home even if they have had recent close contact with a confirmed case so long as they do not have symptoms and do not test positive. Follow CDC testing guidance for anyone exposed to a confirmed case.
- People who are not fully vaccinated and returning to in-person school, sports, or extracurricular activities (and their families) should get tested regularly for COVID-19 according to CDC guidance.
- Schools should encourage ventilation, contact tracing in combination with isolation and quarantine, handwashing, respiratory etiquette, cleaning, and disinfection as important layers of prevention.
Visit Schools and Child Care: Best Practice Recommendations for other updated guidance: "Vax to School" Campaign Today, Governor Walz announced Minnesota's "Vax to School" campaign encouraging students and families to get fully vaccinated by the beginning of the school year. Minnesotans 12 years of age and older are authorized to receive the two-dose Pfizer vaccine, which takes five weeks to go from first dose to fully vaccinated. Getting students and families vaccinated for COVID-19 is the best way to keep kids in school and ensure a safe and worry-free school year. Minnesotans 12 and older can get vaccinated wherever the Pfizer vaccine is being administered. Minnesotans can visit Vaccines.gov to filter by vaccine type and find a provider offering the Pfizer vaccine in their area, call their pediatrician to make an appointment, walk into a local pharmacy, or visit the Mall of America Community Vaccination Program site. Now is also the perfect time to ensure children are caught up on other recommended vaccinations they need to stay healthy. Adolescents can get all the shots they need on the same day, including the COVID-19 vaccine. Minnesota parents should talk to their health care provider about what vaccinations their children need. Watch the campaign video:
Vax To School: Teachers across Minnesota encourage students and families to get vaccinated (YouTube) Read the news release:
State Kicks Off 'Vax to School' Student Vaccination Campaign  Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Materials We are adding new videos, print materials, and translated documents often. Check out the pages below to view, download, or print these resources. | 
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