We need much a higher vaccination rate in school buildings, and it cannot wait until the fall.
in part because they can be more deadly for adults, for the immunocompromised and for babies, whose immune systems are still developing. Like Covid.
And we vaccinate against chickenpox and measles to avoid long, miserable isolations at home or disruptive school outbreaks if vaccination rates are low, she added — again, like covid. Meanwhile, New Jersey Republicans have started a campaign to urge that the mask mandate be dropped today – without even giving people a final chance to get their vaccines. And what sense does it make to drop masks before Murphy at least insists that all school staff gets vaccinated and boosted?
But cold weather in early March may make it difficult to have the windows wide open to help with air flow, as he envisions. This seems premature.
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