CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, particularly in the Northeast, to bring back mask mandates and recommendations for the first time since the omicron winter surge ended and as the country approaches 1 million deaths in the pandemic.
Reactions have ranged from supportive to angry. On the Facebook page of Woodland Hills High School in suburban Pittsburgh, one woman called the change “#insane.” Cornwall said there seems to be a general consensus in the school community in favor of playing it safe. However, current case counts are a vast undercount because of a major downturn in testing and the fact tests are being taken at home and not reported to health departments.An influential modeling group at the University of Washington in Seattle estimates that only 13% of cases are being reported to health authorities in the U.S. — which would mean an undercount of more than a half million new infections every day.
Pretending it was gone didn't work, huh?
Ah nope. Never again.
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