Following New CDC Guidance, Frederick County Schools To Mandate Masks

FREDERICK (WJZ) — The time aft the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for a instrumentality to look coverings successful schools, Frederick County Public Schools administrators announced Wednesday that each students and unit volition person to deterioration masks wrong schoolhouse buildings for the commencement of the year.

Frederick County Public Schools volition beryllium requiring each students and unit to deterioration look coverings wrong our schools for the commencement of the 2021-22 schoolhouse year.

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“The concern with the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve,” Superintendent Terry Alban wrote successful a message to the FCPS community. “We volition show wellness metrics and information successful our schools and assemblage to marque decisions that enactment keeping our students safely attending look to look instruction.”

Alban went connected to mention studies astir the information and effectiveness of cloth look coverings.

The request volition not use outdoors. However, those are not vaccinated are encouraged to inactive deterioration masks extracurricular portion engaging successful schoolhouse activities. Masks were already required aboard schoolhouse buses.

There are besides exceptions for those who can’t deterioration look coverings owed to a aesculapian condition, disability, developmental immaturity oregon different wellness oregon information concerns identified by the CDC.

Frederick County students are acceptable to instrumentality connected Aug. 18.

CBS Baltimore Staff