[Jiangsu News] The number of new crown cases in the United States has shown an upward trend recently, and a few school districts, especially those located in the northeast, have resumed the requirement to wear masks for the first time.
Teachers and students of a kindergarten in Rhode Island wore masks in the classroom on February 9. (Photo source: Associated Press)
Associated Press reported that the current situation in schools across the United States recommending reuse of masks is not as common as in the early stages of the epidemic. However, some school districts in Maine , New Jersey and Pennsylvania have resumed mask orders, and some school districts in Massachusetts even recommend wearing masks when the school year is only a few weeks away.
Maine's largest university district in Portland (Portland) said this week that the mask order will return to campus. Xavier Botana, the head of the company, said that this is "the safest way to do it right now" amid rising cases. In addition, schools in Bangor, Maine have also resumed mask wear requirements.
At the same time, the suburbs of Pittsburgh and the suburbs of Montclair, New Jersey (commuter suburbs of New York City) middle schools have also announced the resumption of mask orders, but it will only last until this week. Data from the Federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the counties with high incidence of the new crown epidemic are currently located in the northeast.
In parts of Massachusetts, where the spread of the new coronavirus is high, authorities also recommend wearing masks in schools.
However, the reactions of the people are different, some supportive and some are angry. On the Facebook page of Woodland Hills High School in the suburb of Pittsburgh, a female netizen said the change was "crazy".
Dufts University 42-year-old professor Diana Martinez and his partner Owen Cornwall, 37, were in their first grade at Graham and Parks School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have been following their advice to get their daughters to wear masks.
Martinez said: "We are very happy about it because it gives us some peace of mind. I think parents generally tend to wear masks because it gives us some comfort. The same is true in kindergartens. Although some parents don't wear masks for their children, we will."
Cornwall, a visiting scholar at Tufts University, said that his school district seems to generally agree that safety is the priority. "We feel lucky for being in this school district because they care about health issues as much as we do."
Johns Hopkins University data shows that the number of daily reported cases in the United States is currently 79,000, up 50% in the past two weeks. Plus, some tests are done at home, and the number of cases reported by health agencies may not be enough to reflect the full picture.
According to an influential organization in the University of Washington in Seattle, only 13% of new crown cases have been reported to health institutions, which means that there are currently more than 500,000 new infections in the United States every day that have not been counted.
Although schools have responded to the rebound in the number of cases, most places have not responded too much to this because the public has been exhausted as the epidemic has lasted for more than two years. At the same time, the government is not very interested in resuming the mask order. Last month, Philadelphia (Philadelphia), which had restored the mask order, gave up the request a few days later. (End)
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