In May, the CDCsaidfully vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks indoors and outdoors.
Since then, COVID-19 variants like Delta have driven up cases and vaccination rate has nearly plateaued.
With the rise in cases, experts recommend taking precautions to limit disease spread within schools and without.
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Thats the way this pandemic can kind of gain state.
There is also the concern that new variants may be more easily spread among children and adolescents.
It has caused some breakthrough infections even among vaccinated individuals.
Clinical trials for vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are currently underway.
At least 426 children under age 16 have died from COVID-19 in the U.S., according to the CDC.
At least 294 of them were under 12.
“Children are not supposed to die.”
One has to look at the whole picture, Popp says.
In other states, public schools required mask use on campus before the revised CDC guidance.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.COVID Data Tracker.
