Fri Oct 22, 2021 – 3:48 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — As the Biden administration prepares to roll out COVID-19 shots for children aged 5-11 pending FDA approval, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said children should still be required to wear masks at school.
Speaking at a White House COVID-19 briefing Wednesday, Walensky said the CDC “will look forward to scaling out pediatric vaccination” in the coming weeks, and schools should continue to enforce their mask mandates even after the FDA approves the shots for children.
“It will take some time and as I just noted, as we head into these winter months we know we cannot be complacent,” Walensky said. “Right now we are going to continue to recommend masks in all schools for all people in those schools and we will look forward to scaling out pediatric vaccination during this period of time.”
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