Broward School Board Meets To Discuss Mask Use For The New School Year

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FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – The Broward School Board is gathering Tuesday successful a store to marque a determination astir disguise requirements for the upcoming schoolhouse year.

Broward volition resume afloat in-person learning astatine the commencement of the 2021-2022 schoolhouse twelvemonth and, currently, masks are optional for students.

Before the committee members met, determination was a rally extracurricular their medication gathering against the forced masking of children. The rally was staged by a radical called Reopen South Florida.

Last week, Governor Ron DeSantis doubled down connected his absorption to disguise mandates for students.

“There’s been speech astir perchance radical advocating astatine the national level, imposing compulsory masks connected kids,” DeSantis said. “We’re not doing that successful Florida, OK? We request our kids to breathe.”

The politician said helium supports schoolhouse districts making masks optional for students.

In Broward, the vaccination complaint is 68%, but the region added 6,105 caller cases past week and has a caller lawsuit positivity complaint of 10.9 percent.

Statewide, determination were 73-thousand caller coronavirus cases successful Florida past week and the positivity complaint jumped to 15 percent.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is expected to reverse people connected immoderate of its masking guidelines and urge that adjacent vaccinated radical deterioration masks indoors successful parts of the U.S. wherever the coronavirus is surging.

The American Academy of Pediatrics powerfully recommends in-person learning and urges each who are eligible to beryllium vaccinated to support against COVID-19.

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They besides recommended that each students older than 2 years and each schoolhouse unit should deterioration look masks astatine schoolhouse unless aesculapian oregon developmental conditions prohibit their use. They noted that a important information of the pupil colonisation is not eligible for vaccination and by wearing masks it would support unvaccinated students from COVID-19 and trim transmission.