Just a week into the school year, over 10,000 students and staff in the Hillsborough County Public Schools district in Florida have been isolated or quarantined as districts across the state grapple with COVID-19.
Plus, the White House is expected to recommend a booster shot eight months after getting the COVID-19 vaccine.Just a week into the school year, over 10,000 students and staff in the Hillsborough County Public Schools district in Florida have been isolated or quarantined as districts across the state grapple withHillsborough is the seventh-largest school district in the U.S., with more than 213,000 students.
The district held an emergency school board meeting Wednesday to discuss how to respond to the crisis.One mother of a student yelled,"Have any children died?" as a result of the virus. Some people in the audience shouted back that children have. Parents against masks argued that face coverings prevent kids from smiling at each other and communicate with their peers and teachers.
A wife of a teacher said during the meeting that her husband is immunosuppressed and suggested the district enforce masks just as they enforce girls adhere to a dress code that bans spaghetti straps. One high school student told the anti-maskers,"This tiny piece of cloth is not taking away your freedom. ... Grow up."
District officials said they're providing personal protective equipment and sanitation stations for each classroom, and have installed MERV-13 air filters at each school.
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