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What are the numbers for the high, moderate, low, etc?

Test positivity in Arlington is back under 5%. School cases very low. If not now, when? [/quote]

They need to rethink how they are looking at the metrics.  If we continue to look at case numbers, we will never take off the masks.  In Arlington, we've been "low" for only one month in the last year.  Vaccines are widely available, we need to start looking at hospital impact not case count.  For vaccinated, this is risk at the same level as the flu, if not lower for kids.[/quote]

So this is APS saying children will mask forever in school. [/quote]

No, it’s APS continuing to follow the CDC guidelines. Which is a reasonable thing to do.

When the CDC adjusts guidelines - likely very soon - then APS will adjust accordingly.

APS doesn’t define public health guidelines, they follow them. 
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CDC plans to continue recommending universal masking in schools. Literally no one will follow that soon.

Their guidelines for the general population will change, though.[/quote]

Citation? [/quote]

[quote] Walensky made no such commitment to a timetable for abolishing school mask mandates. She acknowledged the "limitations" of the Arizona study, as well as other studies the CDC has relied upon to inform their guidance, but rejected any near-term changes on masking in schools.

"They all have limitations, and that's important to recognize because we are not randomizing schools," she said. "We have to control for whether there are windows, ventilation, and other activities happening outside of these schools. So all of these studies have limitations. But they are for the most part uniformly pointing to that when there's a lot of disease out there, the masks are preventing that disease and preventing that transmission and because of that we are able to keep our schools open."[/quote]
https://reason.com/2022/02/16/cdc-rochelle-walensky-masks-schools-covid-leaked-audio/[/quote]

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