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Amid COVID surge, school mask mandates supported by most parents: poll
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As schools return from summer break amid growing concerns of the highly contagious delta variant, most parents support school mask mandates.
"Despite controversy around the country about masks in schools, most parents want their school to require masks of unvaccinated students and staff," KFF president and CEO Drew Altman said in a statement. "At the same time, most parents don’t want their schools to require their kids get a COVID-19 vaccine despite their effectiveness in combatting COVID-19." In the poll released Wednesday, 58% of parents of 12- to 17-year-old children eligible for the COVID-19 shot were against schools mandating vaccinations for classrooms; 54% of parents of school-age children condemned a vaccine mandate, even if the Food and Drug Administration grants its full approval.More Related News