When schools reopen in the next few weeks, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that all students wear masks, regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not.
On Monday, the association issued a Updated mask guide, It recommends that people 2 years and older should wear a face mask to school during the spread of the highly contagious delta variant this fall.
“There are many children and others who cannot be vaccinated,” said Sara Bode, chair of the AAP School Health Executive Committee.
“This is why it is important to use every tool in our toolkit to protect children from COVID-19. General-purpose masks are one of these tools and have been shown to be effective in protecting people from other respiratory diseases. “
Studies have found that if there are mask regulations, reopening schools is not necessarily related to the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. According to CDC.
“This is also the most effective strategy to establish consistent information and expectations among students without the additional burden of monitoring everyone’s vaccination status,” Bode said.
AAP update Masking suggestions Unlike what the CDC shares, the CDC stipulates that vaccinated faculty, staff and students do not need to wear masks when returning to school for face-to-face learning.
Appeared on Monday at CNN, Dr. Anthony Fauci seems to agree with the updated recommendations of the AAP and suggests that the recommendations should be followed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“When you have a certain degree of viral dynamics in the community and you have a large percentage of the population who have not been vaccinated, you really want to go one more step, an extra mile, to make sure that there is no mass transmission, even during vaccinations Breakthrough infection occurred in of individuals,” he said.
Nevertheless, both parties CDC And AAP seems to agree that face-to-face learning is the best choice for students in the fall.
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