Kansas governor urges school districts to require masks
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Kim Welch, a Wichita preschool teacher, leads a class during a half-day summer program at Cessna Elementary School.
Most school districts have either said masks won t be required when the fall semester begins, or haven t decided. That conflicts with some expert advice.
WICHITA, Kansas Overwhelmingly, the guidance from doctors and health agencies to schools weighing whether to require masks goes like this:
Unvaccinated people including elementary students, for whom the COVID-19 shot isn’t yet available should continue wearing face coverings at school.
The message comes as the highly contagious delta variant continues to spread through Kansas and rage through next-door Missouri, fueling a new surge of hospitalizations. The vast majority of cases are among unvaccinated people.