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As we approach the third winter since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unknown how COVID-19 will impact the 2022-23 school year.
In an editorial in the in the American Journal of Public Health, CUNY SPH Assistant Professor Chloe Teasdale and Associate Professor Sasha Fleary discuss a new study from researchers at the CDC, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the University of Wisconsin comparing the effectiveness of COVID-19 mitigation strategies in Wisconsin school districts in the fall of 2021.
The study found that during a period of high infection rates, the combination of masking and vaccination provided stronger protection than vaccination alone.
Teasdale and Fleary say the study demonstrates that reliance on local decision-making about critical public health measures left many schools unprotected from COVID-19 and created inequities in risk for Wisconsin’s children and educators.
“Protecting public health is one of the fundamental responsibilities of governments, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that many state governments need to take stronger actions to protect the health of all of their citizens,” they write.
Read the full editorial here.
