CONWAY — What will the 2021-22 school year be like in terms of COVID-19 protocols? More social distancing and mask-wearing? Or more freedom?
That will be something for the SAU 9 Re-Entry Committee to discuss and decide.
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I hope everyone on this committee reads this latest article in the Journal of American Medical Association-Pediatrics: "Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks in Healthy Children
A Randomized Clinical Trial".
The outcomes speak for themselves, and what they show is not very reassuring.
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