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[quote=Anonymous]This article says n95 but none are made for smaller children's faces so maybe they meant surgical/KN95/KF94 masks. Any staff know what type of mask the district will be providing?

https://www.alxnow.com/2022/01/07/amid-covid-surge-alexandria-city-public-schools-presents-plan-to-switch-to-virtual-instruction-on-school-by-school-basis/

[b]I am curious... will you be switching your kids to KN95 of KF94 masks?[/b]

According to Covidactnow, the case rate in Alexandria is 298/100k. It is understandable why some families are concerned. We are sending ours with KN95 masks and will monitor their symptoms closely. Would be nice if there was 2x/week opt-out surveillance testing, staggered lunch and test-to-stay but none of this looks likely. Besides using better filtering masks, not much more that families can do on their own except for perhaps using rapid tests (too difficult to implement because of expense and scarcity) or coordinating to see if an entire classroom of students would agree to wear KN95/KF94 masks (but probably too controversial to implement).

ICYMI, ACPS also published a plan for reverting to virtual instruction on a school-by-school/grade-by-grade/classroom-by-classroom basis.

[img]https://www.alxnow.com/files/2022/01/Screen-Shot-2022-01-07-at-1.17.40-PM.jpg [/img][/quote]

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