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In light of new CDC guidelines, school systems across the state are requiring masks for the upcoming school year including Montgomery Public Schools and Dallas County Schools.
As July is winding down, parents are getting ready to send their kids back to school, some for the first time in over a year. The CDC believes it is safe for students to be back in the classroom, however according to new guidelines, they recommend everyone in school buildings wear masks.
The Alabama State Department of Education is leaving it up to individual schools systems to make calls on masks requirements.
ADPH spokesman Ryan Easterling in a message to APR on Wednesday said the department was finalizing its school toolkit which will follow CDC guidance on masks in schools, which the CDC updated Tuesday.
CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters Tuesday that the change in mask recommendations comes after new data on the delta variant shows that viral loads carried by the vaccinated are as high as those carried by the unvaccinated, meaning the vaccinated can transmit the virus.
“In recent days I have seen new scientific data from recent outbreak investigations showing that that delta variant behaves uniquely differently from past strains of the virus that cause COVID-19,” Walensky said, also noting, however, that the CDC believes vast majority of transmission is occurring in unvaccinated people and through unvaccinated people.
UAB News
Children in Bessemer are getting a chance this summer to sharpen their educational skills through activities including math and reading exercises and advice from local entrepreneurs on the basics of successfully running a business.
The Happy Healthy Hard Elementary Summer Camp is free of charge and available to students in third, fourth and fifth grades.
This camp is an initiative of the Bessemer Building Healthy Communities coalition, supported by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC). The camp addresses the community’s request for a program to help with raised garden beds at Charles F. Hard Elementary School.