As elementary students in Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 head back to school this fall, they will have the supplies they need to ensure success.
Despite new federal guidance that everyone should wear masks inside schools to start the year, many school boards so far are still sticking with plans to make protective face coverings optional.
As DuPage, McHenry reach substantial risk level, mask alert called inevitable in suburbs Elgin 12-year-old Geneva Dadabo shows off her I Got Mine sticker, which she placed over her bandage after she got her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin more than two months ago. Rick West | Staff Photographer, May 13
Updated 7/28/2021 7:01 PM
Medical experts say it s only a matter of time before suburban COVID-19 transmission rises to the level at which face coverings are advised in all public indoor locations.
DuPage and McHenry counties joined Will County Wednesday with enough disease spread to trigger the universal indoor mask-wearing advice set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the day before. But it s inevitable that will happen in the rest of the suburbs and Chicago, one doctor says.
Updated 7/27/2021 6:25 PM
School districts that make mask-wearing voluntary for students too young to be eligible for COVID-19 vaccines are legally reckless and could be vulnerable to lawsuits, one expert says.
But a suburban school district said its attorneys and insurers greenlighted its plan to let families choose whether students should wear masks in school.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidance for schools Tuesday to now recommend all students, faculty and staff members, and visitors begin the school year wearing masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This new science on the delta variant is worrisome and requires changes to our guidance, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said. lllinois public health officials said the state is fully adopting the new CDC recommendation.
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