The district has procured hundreds of thousands of masks to distribute as a temporary response to this variant’s recent surge. On Tuesday, January 17, SPS will begin distributing higher-grade masks, including a combination of KN95 and N95 masks to all staff. Staff who require them have always had access and will continue to do so. The district has also requested half a million KN95 and KN94 masks for students.
Since the beginning of the school year, SPS has implemented and followed public health guidance to protect students and staff using layers of COVID-19 risk mitigation, including:
- Providing Personal Protection Equipment and reinforcing universal masking.
- Mandating social distancing, including lunch outdoors when distancing indoors is not possible.
- Mandating vaccination for adults in SPS buildings.
- Enhancing air circulation, including the incorporation of hospital grade (MERV13 filters) and free- standing HEPA filters, with air circulation monitored consistently in SPS buildings by outside consultants.
- Providing on-site protected health rooms, PCR testing for teachers and staff with symptoms, and a COVID site supervisor in each school.
- Standing up vaccination clinics for 5- to 12-year-old students within days of approval and boosters for students ages 12 and above within days of approval. More than 12,000 students have been vaccinated through school-based clinics.
Those institutions forcing any type of medical treatment should also be held accountable for any and all adverse reactions caused by that medical treatment. Giving 5 year old children mask and expecting those children to keep a mask properly worn is a failure to protect the child from the danger of infection. Virtue signally using N95 mask needs to stop.
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