STATE & EDUCATION / CORONAVIRUS

CDC wants more vaccinated people and schoolchildren to mask up — but Texas keeps it voluntary

Texas Republican state leaders held their ground against allowing local schools and governments to require masks. The CDC guidelines are not mandates and have no weight of law.

By Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune
Posted 7/27/21

Citing new evidence that the delta variant of the coronavirus could be spread through rare “breakthrough” infections in vaccinated people, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control …

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