California mask mandate for schools to end after March 11

California mask mandate for schools to end after March 11

Andrew Noymer, [associate] public health professor at the University of California, Irvine, says it’s too early to lift the mask mandate, especially because it remains unclear what thresholds the state hopes to reach by March 12. “I can only say that the COVID rates are too high now,” he said. “But I’m not in favor of a future in which kids always go to school with masks.”