BREAKING California health officials say although the indoor mask mandate will be lifted for vaccinated people on Feb. 15, it will remain in effect for schoolchildren.
The highly-infectious omicron variant could hasten the pandemic to end after the surge, according to several experts ABC7 News talked to.The California Teachers Association said in a statement they"support the administrations to decision to pause and gather more information.""They just emerged from the Omicron spike, we have had a very serious staffing crisis," said Jeff Freitas, the President of CFT.Dr.
Dr. John Swartzberg, a clinical professor emeritus at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health says the state got it right. "In kids between the ages of 5 and 11 years old, only 33% are vaccinated, way below where they should be. So we don't have most of the kids protected at schools with vaccines, so how do we protect them? We protect them by driving the cases in the community so low, that there is very little likelihood that they are going to get exposed and we keep our masks on until those numbers are so low," Dr. Swartzberg said.
"February 28 doesn't mean we're all of a sudden going to rip off our masks but we should look at where we are before dispensing of the masks at schools."
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