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Lawyers representing the six school districts challenging the Department of Health with a petition in court say their latest emergency order does nothing to prevent communicable disease.
The Orange County School Board reiterated its plan to keep its students’ faces covered through Oct. 30.
Richard Corcoran recommended to the State Board of Education that it withholds funds from Duval Co. Schools equal to 1/12 of board members' salaries & federal funds.
Gather, that if they did catch the virus, it's not so bad in children. >> reporter: according to the american academy of pediatrics, nationwide there were nearly 226,000 new cases of covid-19 reported in children during the week that ended september 16. public health officials warn covid-19 cases could continue to rise now that so many schools have returned to in-person learning. >> we see more infections, more outbreaks in school settings. that's going to continue to build. schools will become sources of spread here in the northeast as well. >> reporter: like in new york where public school i...
Optional in school settings, what that scenario would look like. take a listen. >> i think we're going to have to get to a point where the vaccines are widely available in schools. so schools aren't inherently safe environments, but they can be more safe by taking proper precautions. masks is certainly one tool. >> so getting to the place where vaccines are widely available in schools, is when he says we could probably see masks go away. when did you think realistically that would be? >> yeah, i generally agree with dr. gottlieb. i agree masks are a very powerful layer of protection. but it is...