Michigan students subject to mask mandates and quarantine requirements in recent school years are getting more simple guidance from districts this year: If the student isn’t feeling well, he or she should stay home.
Michigan, following a national trend, is experiencing a small increase in COVID-19 cases: 3,792 cases in the week of Sept. 5 compared with about 800 two months earlier. The seven-day average in cases has slowly creeped up, though the rise is not as dramatic as other previous pandemic spikes.
Nationwide, school districts’ responses to rising COVID-19 cases vary. In Alabama, some schools are encouraging students to wear masks again as hospitalizations rise across the state, Al.com reported, and, in Maryland, an elementary school principal mandated masks for Kindergartners, according to the Washington Post.
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