Collected Item: “COVID cases 2021-2022 School Year”
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COVID cases 2021-2022 School Year
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Article
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This article shows the amount of COVID cases at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year compared to the number of cases from the 2020-2021 school year in Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott ended the mask mandate in March 2021, although many school continued their use until the end of the 2020-2021 school year. A May 2021 executive order issued by Abbott banned local governments from requiring mask wearing. Thus, many Texas schools did not require masks to be worn on campuses. The article provides data that there are more COVID 19 cases in the first two months of the 2021-2022 school year than there were the entire previous school year.
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#Maskmandate, #Texas, #Maskban
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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/17/texas-schools-covid-19-cases/?utm_source=articleshare&utm_medium=social
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The Texas Tribune
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2021-09-21