Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried Releases Data She Says Shows School Mask Mandates Work

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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami) – Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried has released schoolhouse territory COVID-19 information which she said shows disguise mandates worked to dilatory the dispersed of coronavirus.

In a virtual property league Thursday morning, Fried said the DeSantis’ medication worked to artifact the merchandise of the information which shows that schoolhouse districts requiring masks resulted successful up to 7 times little COVID-19 cases per capita than schoolhouse districts that did not necessitate masks.

Fried released the data successful beforehand of Thursday’s authorities Board of Education meeting, which volition find punishment for eleven Florida schoolhouse districts requiring masks.

According to the information released by Fried’s office, schoolhouse districts that started the schoolhouse twelvemonth with disguise requirements (Alachua, Broward, Miami-Dade) saw 3 times little pupil COVID-19 cases per capita compared to districts without disguise requirements.

School districts with disguise requirements enacted astatine immoderate clip had conscionable fractional the pupil COVID-19 cases arsenic schoolhouse districts without disguise requirements, according to the information she released.

(Source: Florida Dept. of Agriculture)

“This information intelligibly shows the truth: the Governor is lying astir masks successful schools,” said Fried successful a statement. “Every mode you look astatine the data, kids were amended disconnected successful schools requiring masks than those that did not. School districts that did thing suffered 4 times higher COVID-19 cases than schoolhouse districts that required masks, successful nonstop contradiction to the Governor’s disinformation.”

Fried pointed to Highlands County, with nary disguise requirement, which had 600 times higher highest cases per capita (12 cases per capita) than successful masked Miami-Dade and Broward Counties (0.02 cases per capita).

In different findings, determination were 0.69 highest cases per capita successful schoolhouse districts requiring masks; 0.98 highest cases per capita successful schoolhouse districts with disguise parental opt-outs, and 2.90 highest cases per capita successful schoolhouse districts with nary disguise requirements.

In compiling the data, each of Florida’s 67 schoolhouse districts were asked if they had publically accessible COVID-19 information dashboards. Fried said they recovered 33 schoolhouse districts had nationalist dashboards that published aggregated lawsuit information connected a play ground for each progressive weeks of the 2021-22 schoolhouse year. Those were the dashboards that were utilized to compile the data, according to Fried.

Fried said cases per capita were calculated arsenic full cases done the week of September 20 divided by full schoolhouse territory enrollment. Peak cases per capita were calculated arsenic highest week cases divided by full schoolhouse territory enrollment.

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Fried is 1 of respective Democrats who is moving against Ron DeSantis for the governor’s bureau successful 2022.