Broward School Board Emergency Meeting Friday To Discuss Revising COVID-19 Protocols

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FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – With a caller surge successful COVID-19 cases during the holidays driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant, Broward’s School Board volition clasp an exigency gathering Friday to reappraisal and perchance revise their information protocols.

Being considered is that each employees, vendors, and visitors volition beryllium required to deterioration look coverings portion indoors astatine immoderate territory school, facility, oregon vehicle. If accepted it would spell into effect connected Monday, January 3rd. Masks for students would stay optional but powerfully encouraged.

The enactment is akin to what Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced connected Thursday. Beginning Monday, Jan. 6, each adults entering region schools, vendors, and visitors, on with autobus drivers and autobus attendants will person to deterioration masks. Masks volition besides beryllium required for each spectators astatine schoolhouse diversion events. Masks volition not beryllium required for students, but they are powerfully urged to deterioration them.

Dr. Lisa Gwynn, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences astatine the University of Miami, says there’s a precise existent interest for kids erstwhile it comes to the Omicron variant.

“If parents bash not usage nonstop their kids to schoolhouse with masks, the corruption rates are conscionable going to spell higher and higher,” says Dr. Gwynn.

Due to a instrumentality that went into effect past November, neither schoolhouse territory cannot necessitate students to deterioration masks. However, they tin powerfully promote it to assistance power the dispersed of the virus.

The Broward schoolhouse territory has besides asked parents and guardians to support their children location if they are sick, exhibiting symptoms, oregon person been exposed to COVID-19.

This schoolhouse year, schoolhouse districts were not allowed to supply intermittent virtual schoolhouse options to students owed to the Florida Department of Education’s exigency orders expiring this past summertime and the caller law.

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The Broward schoolhouse territory said volition proceed to enactment with section wellness officials, and travel guidance from the CDC arsenic it evaluates and adjusts COVID-19 wellness and information protocols.