The Republican said school classrooms are the best place for students even as cases of the disease have shot up statewide, driven by the super-contagious omicron variant, emphasizing that the majority of adults in schools are fully vaccinated.
He also said rapid tests are a better tool for deciding when people can return to the workplace or the classroom, acknowledged hurdles to convincing parents their kids should get the vaccine, and repeated his aversion to a general mask mandate. Masks are currently required in schools.
In pooled testing, samples from multiple people are tested together. If the pool tests negative, all the individuals in the pool are negative. If the pool tests positive, individual samples are retested to see which person tested positive. Some masks distributed by the state recently turned out to be a less-protective version of the high-quality N95 masks promised.
He said persuading some parents about the necessity of getting the vaccine has been bogged down in part because what he described as “noise” that has spread doubt.
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