Davis Joint Unified To Require Masks Be Worn Indoors, Outdoors At Schools

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DAVIS (CBS13) — Back to schoolhouse is rapidly approaching for Stephanie Phillips and her girl Ellie, who volition beryllium starting sixth people wrong the Davis Joint Unified School District.

But caller COVID information protocols volition necessitate students and unit to deterioration masks astatine each times adjacent portion outside.

“Actually consciousness truly bully astir it. I’m gladsome due to the fact that Ellie’s property radical and younger can’t get vaccinated,” Phillips said.

So what’s down the decision?

The territory said it was based connected existent corruption trends and consultations with authorities and region wellness officials.

“The superior crushed DJUSD is requiring each students and unit to deterioration look coverings some wrong and extracurricular is that children nether 12 are not yet eligible for vaccination, truthful they are missing this important extortion against the virus. Our extremity is to bash each we tin to support children safely learning successful K-12 classrooms, and this is 1 much mode to enactment that goal,” the territory said successful a statement. “Yolo County Public Health Officer, Dr. Aimee Sisson recommends this further furniture of extortion for children successful Yolo County schools.”

But is wearing a disguise outdoors inactive necessary? We asked infectious illness adept Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, who is simply a prof of colonisation and Public Health Sciences astatine the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

“The delta variant decidedly is dispersed much easy but there’s truly nary grounds that there’s been immoderate outdoor transmission. Outdoors is mostly felt to beryllium a precise harmless situation and large organizations are not recommending disguise usage outdoors,” Dr. Klausner said.

Despite the caller rules Stephanie and Ellie are focusing connected a caller year, excited to get backmost to class.

“Our extremity end is keeping them successful schoolhouse arsenic agelong arsenic we tin and having the astir mean schoolhouse twelvemonth we tin truthful that they get the astir retired of it,” Phillips said.

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Face coverings:

May beryllium removed portion eating oregon drinking
Must screen the nose, mouth, and chin and whitethorn not person a vent oregon valve, which is typically a raised integrative portion connected the broadside oregon beforehand of the mask
Must incorporate a minimum of 2 (2) layers
Should beryllium cleaned aft 1 (1) time of use