(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Cook County Department of Public Health is “strongly recommending” that students and school staff in suburban Cook wear masks indoors if they’re unvaccinated but are stopping short of Chicago Public Schools’ requirement of masks for everyone.
“We certainly would support any school district that would choose to require masking for everybody, regardless of vaccination status,” said Dr. Rachel Rubin, co-lead of the Cook County Department of Public Health.
“These are recommendations. These are guidance, and we don’t have any way to enforce, strictly, masking in schools,” she said.
Dr. Rubin said the numbers of Delta variant cases are doubling about every two weeks.
“Does this mean we’re going to have a full surge? I think it may even be before the fall. But it’s going to be in these younger age groups of individuals that have had the lowest percentage of vaccination rates.”
The group comprises 20- to-30-year-olds and older adolescents and teenagers.
On another topic: Dr. Rubin said booster shots are in our collective future.
“My thought is the immunocompromised might be the first in the queue for boosters,” she said.
But just when those booster shots are coming she said is unclear — any time from late fall to winter to early in 2022.
On another topic: Dr. Rubin said booster shots are in our collective future.
“My thought is the immunocompromised might be the first in the queue for boosters,” she said.
But just when those booster shots are coming she said is unclear — any time from late fall to winter to early in 2022.
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