Letter to the editor: Time to lift masking, distancing mandates for Maine kids
These requirements are keeping employees from returning to work full time and will prevent classrooms from reopening at full capacity this fall.
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The governor’s office continues to hold the state back because of irrational fears of COVID-19. Based on U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research, healthy K-12 children are at greater risk from influenza and are not driving community spread of COVID – they are recipients of it.
Now that COVID vaccines have been available and most who have wanted to have been vaccinated, it is time for a new approach. Case rates and mortality are down significantly. If the economy is to open up, Maine’s children’s masking and distancing requirements need to end.