Jefferson County Public Schools will continue to require students, staff and visitors to wear masks indoors because of a policy previously passed by the Jefferson County Board of Education, Superintendent Marty Pollio said Friday.
Superintendent Marty Pollio says that number would have been higher without the district’s universal masking policy inside schools, where classes began Wednesday.
Dr. Steven Stack said during a news conference that the state’s guidance for K-12 school systems has been updated to reflect similar recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were also revised this week amid an escalation of COVID-19 cases driven by the more infectious delta variant.
But the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation also said that more than 67,000 of those people could be saved with universal masking.
