Coronavirus Update: Face-mask decisions loom over public school districts
A growing number of public school districts across the U.S. are reinstating face-mask mandates, or considering doing so, as they seek to protect students from the wave of COVID cases being driven by the BA.5 omicron subvariant.
But other districts are opting to make masks optional, responding to pushback from parents and other groups organized around an opposition to masks. The CDC’s last statement on the issue was published in May and recommends universal indoor mask use when a community COVID level is high. The daily average for hospitalizations rose to 43,341, up 10% in two weeks. The daily average for deaths is up 2% to 439. In California cases are higher than they’ve been in six months, while in New York there are more patients in hospitals than at the peak of last year’s delta wave.
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