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BigmanPigman

(52,222 posts)
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 10:11 PM Nov 2022

Masking student in public schools slows the spread of Covid

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/masks-cut-covid-spread-in-schools-study-finds/

"New studies show that masking in public schools does help to slow the spread Covid.

Now a research paper details a so-called natural experiment that occurred when all but two school districts in the greater Boston area lifted mask requirements in the spring. Researchers took that opportunity to make a direct comparison of the spread of COVID in masking and nonmasking schools.

The bottom line: Masking mandates were linked with significantly reduced numbers of COVID-19 cases in schools.

Infection rates were lower among masked students — even in Boston’s public schools, where many buildings are old and lack good ventilation systems, classrooms are crowded and students are more often from at-risk communities — than among unmasked students attending newer schools in communities like Cambridge and Newton."
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Masking student in public schools slows the spread of Covid (Original Post) BigmanPigman Nov 2022 OP
Meanwhile, in Florida... DBoon Nov 2022 #1
And Deathsantis will cover up the real numbers BigmanPigman Nov 2022 #2
Where in the article did the first statement in your post originate? I'm confused. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Nov 2022 #3
I fucked up. BigmanPigman Dec 2022 #4

DBoon

(23,032 posts)
1. Meanwhile, in Florida...
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 10:31 PM
Nov 2022
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis put his weight behind dozens of conservative school board candidates across Florida during the midterms. Now they’re in office — and are purging some educational leaders who enforced Covid-19 mandates.

New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week. The ousters were spurred by how the superintendents carried out local policies like efforts to support the rights of parents, an issue inflamed by schools imposing student mask mandates last fall in defiance of DeSantis.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217422244

original story:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/30/desantis-school-board-covid-00071305

littlemissmartypants

(25,369 posts)
3. Where in the article did the first statement in your post originate? I'm confused. ❤️
Wed Nov 30, 2022, 11:35 PM
Nov 2022
New studies show that masking in public schools does help to spread Covid.


BigmanPigman

(52,222 posts)
4. I fucked up.
Thu Dec 1, 2022, 04:09 AM
Dec 2022

I rewrote it so it makes sense now. I wasn't able to write as fast as I think, this is a common occurrence with me and my Samsung tablet which chooses to do what it feels like and adds and deletes words as well as changing my correct spelling into incorrect spelling. It really pisses me off. Both of my Samsung tablets do this. I will not buy another product of theirs again. My phone and computer are so so but the tablets...forget it.

Masks in schools DOES help to reduce the spread of Covid (like we already knew it did). This study verifies it.

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