Tuesday’s New Articles & Videos On School Reopenings

 

Ordinarily, I’d add these new articles and videos to The Best Posts Predicting (& Showing) What Schools Look Like During The Pandemic. However, that list is just getting too massive.  So, in the future, if you want to find these in one place, click here:

From Connecticut to California, officials announce the easing of mask orders. is from The NY Times.

Let's visualize these data another way by dividing vaccination rates into categories. 158 counties (5%) have more than 50% school-aged kids fully vaccinated. Another 859 counties (28%) have rates between 25 and 50%. 2096 counties (67%) have fewer than 25% fully vaccinated. https://t.co/FTGHRyjEkU pic.twitter.com/XQKG2Hbe7k

— Benjy Renton (@bhrenton) February 8, 2022

As the mom of a kid who has spent about half his life in a pandemic, I have wondered a lot about how wearing a mask affects child development.

So I dove into the evidence on the harms of masking… and I didn't find any. https://t.co/kZ3gphB0vH

— Melody Schreiber (@m_scribe) February 7, 2022

ICYMI: So far this school year mask requirements have been fairly popular with parents and the public. A big question is whether that changes as some places change their policies. https://t.co/0bwe5gRyml

— Matt Barnum (@matt_barnum) February 7, 2022