Broward School Board To Hold Emergency Meeting Friday On Face Coverings

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Back successful November, the Broward schoolhouse committee voted to marque masks optional for each students successful schools and connected Friday the committee volition conscionable to amend its look covering policy, but this volition not use to students.

The School Board of Broward County, Florida volition clasp an Emergency School Board Meeting connected Friday, December 31, 2021, astatine 1:30 p.m. for the intent of amending its facial coverings policy. The amendment volition NOT use to students. Watch the livestream astatine https://t.co/yP8Ocw2ZHx. pic.twitter.com/PxIwNLY1nj

— Broward Schools (@browardschools) December 29, 2021

In Miami-Dade masks besides became optional for students successful November but lone if their parents opted them out.

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Superintendent Alberto Carvalho tweeted retired that the territory volition merchandise a acceptable of updated protocols earlier the extremity of this week, and that each territory operations volition resume connected January 3.

We volition bash the close happening by our children, our workforce, and our community. @MDCPS volition merchandise a acceptable of updated protocols anterior to the extremity of this week. All territory operations volition resume, arsenic scheduled, connected January 3, 2022. https://t.co/mlZVBhDCsg

— Alberto M. Carvalho (@MiamiSup) December 28, 2021

“I tin archer you successful the aesculapian community, specifically successful pediatrics, we person not changed successful our recommendations,” says Dr. Lisa Gwynn, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences astatine the University of Miami. “We are seeing an summation successful COVID cases successful children and were seeing an summation successful hospitalizations.”

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Dr. Gwynn says 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.

At Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, they are seeing an uptick of pediatric covid-19 cases firsthand.

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“Our numbers truthful acold successful December are akin to the numbers we saw erstwhile determination was an uptick successful august truthful a batch much than earlier this year,” says Dr. Christopher Chang, Chief of Immunology astatine Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital.

Austin Carter