橙县是加州乃至全美最富裕的县之一,坐落在南加州沿海地区。而最近几周,橙县新冠确诊数量的增长速度已超过了洛杉矶县。在这种情况下,本周一加州橙县教育委员会(Orange County Board of Education)还投票通过了一项决议,学校将重新开放并且开放面授课程,还建议无需要求戴口罩以及保持社交距离。支持委员会这一决定的报告写道,儿童应该戴上口罩以防止病毒传播的想法是“错误的,缺乏科学和数据支持”。但是委员会的决议不具有约束力,每个学区可以自己决定是否要听从这一决议。
On Monday, the Orange County Board of Education voted to approve guidelines to reopen schools for in-person learning in the fall — without requiring masks or social-distancing measures.
Individual school districts within the county can decide whether to heed the board's recommendations, but local parents told us the decision has created a rift in the affluent community.
Orange County is one of 30 California counties where the reopening of businesses has been rolled back because of rising COVID-19 cases, and cases are rising faster per capita there than the previous epicenter of Los Angeles. source