Genevieve Kanter of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on a Texas policy that does not require schools to require mask-wearing or to contact trace and alert parents when a child tests positive for COVID-19. “It certainly seems as if the [masking] decision is being made for reasons other than public health,” she said. “These children, even if they remain asymptomatic, will be vectors for COVID, infecting their (vaccinated or not) parents, parents’ coworkers and friends, grandparents.”

August 9, 2021 ・ From Daily Beast