The state's new surgeon general said it would be up to parents to decide if their kids could return to class.
Florida’s new surgeon general on Wednesday signed new rules allowing parents to send their children to school rather than quarantine if they’ve been exposed to someone with COVID-19 and remain asymptomatic.
The new rules signed Wednesday allow students to continue going to class on-campus “without restrictions” as long as they are asymptomatic. Ladapo’s provisions do give students the option to quarantine if parents choose, but for no longer than seven days. Children under 12 are not yet eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination, but Pfizer said this week its vaccine wasDeSantis told media outlets Wednesday: “I trust parents and families, and I don’t think they are going to go around lying.”
Ladapo echoed DeSantis, saying the decision would allow the state to do “what is right for parents and for students.
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