Kansas schoolchildren and teachers return to the classroom this week amid a post-Christmas and New Year coronavirus surge and pleas from doctors to wear masks. Kansas Department of Health and Environment data suggest the COVID-19 case surge in the week after Christmas has been worse than any previous peak in the pandemic. “If you want to keep schools open and you want to keep businesses open, you got to keep people healthy,” said Steve Stites, the chief medical officer at The University of Kansas Health System, when asked Monday whether mask mandates should be reinstated. “You’re either not going to have enough teachers or enough staff, or too many students out, in this omicron wave to think that you’re going to really have successful schools, in my opinion, or the business is going to be able to work if they don’t have enough employees.”
Source: CJonline
