#San Diego students told to mask up outdoors at school, bus stops

#San Diego students told to mask up outdoors at school, bus stops

“#San Diego students told to mask up outdoors at school, bus stops” San Diego’s largest school district, the second-largest in California, is requiring students to wear coronavirus masks outdoors as well as indoors on campus grounds – and at their bus stops as part of its fall reopening guidelines. “Masks are always required indoors,” page 14 of the San Diego…

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#Hospitalized kids with COVID hits record high in US

#Hospitalized kids with COVID hits record high in US

“#Hospitalized kids with COVID hits record high in US” There are some 1,900 children in the US hospitalized with COVID-19, according to updated data logged Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services — setting a new pandemic record for kids. That figure represented about 2.4% of the nation’s total coronavirus hospitalizations as of…

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#Eight grade student in Mississippi dies of COVID-19

#Eight grade student in Mississippi dies of COVID-19

“#Eight grade student in Mississippi dies of COVID-19” An eighth grade student in Mississippi succumbed to COVID-19 just hours after receiving a positive test result, according to reports. Makayla Robinson, 13, had attended school in Smith County, Mississippi for most of last week before quickly succumbing to complications from the virus on Aug. 14, according to…

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#Democrats headed for a shellacking and other commentary

#Democrats headed for a shellacking and other commentary

“#Democrats headed for a shellacking and other commentary” From the right: Dems Headed for a Shellacking Democrats’ control of the House is “in serious jeopardy,” declares David Bossie at The Washington Times. “Not only is history working against them” — a new president’s party almost always loses seats in its first midterm — but Dems…

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#Amid COVID surge, school mask mandates supported by most parents: poll

#Amid COVID surge, school mask mandates supported by most parents: poll

“#Amid COVID surge, school mask mandates supported by most parents: poll” As schools return from summer break amid growing concerns of the highly contagious delta variant, most parents support school mask mandates. The KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor said 63 percent of parents of school-age children polled by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) said schools should mandate masks for unvaccinated…

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#Biden looking at ordering universal masking for school kids

#Biden looking at ordering universal masking for school kids

“#Biden looking at ordering universal masking for school kids” President Biden said Tuesday that his administration is examining whether he can order universal masking in public schools, overriding Republican governors in states like Florida and Texas. “I don’t believe that I do [have that power], thus far,” Biden told reporters during an event in the…

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