With most of the Bay Area announcing that vaccinated people can take off their masks indoors at work and at the gym next week, the next pressing question is: What about schools?
One point of contention: The vaccination rates in California schools are substantially lower than they are for adults.
For example, nearly 28% of 5- to 11-year- olds have been vaccinated statewide compared to California's average vaccination rate of 69.5%.Oakland Unified school board directors, for example, said it would mandate that students be vaccinated by Feb. 1, but tElsewhere in the country, states are grappling with similar issues. – plan to lift their indoor mask mandates in March, which will also include schools.
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