Texas mom apologizes to daughters for sending them to school, as student COVID cases grow

"The governor of Texas has pushed us into a corner, our allies have evaporated, and it is just us—once again—figuring out this crisis alone," she wrote.

On Tuesday night—after the open letter was written—Denton schools decided to require masking to help limit the virus' spread, KXAS-TV reported. The change went into effect Thursday and applied to all teachers, students and visitors where social distancing is not possible. A Texas mother wrote an open letter to her daughters, apologizing for sending them to school when they are unable to be vaccinated, since children under 12 are not eligible. Here, a nurse prepares to vaccinated a 12-year-old in Houston on May 13.COVID-19 cases in Texas have increased since July. On Friday, the state had a 7-day-average of 20,236 new cases per day, more than double than that one month earlier, when the average was 8,962, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

published Friday, Texas saw 14,033 reported cases of students with COVID last week, a 34 percent rise from the week that had the most student cases reported in the last school year.

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