Gov. DeWine Urges Ohio Schools to Require that Kids Wear Masks in Class

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DeWINE: "I'll tell you what we have done. We came out last week with recommendations. They are recommendations. We leave it up to the local schools, 600 and some local schools. We leave it up to them, but we have a strong recommendation that, because the population in school, kids in school, most of them are unvaccinated, you know, obviously we can’t get anybody 11 and under vaccinated yet, so most these kids are on vaccinated. And we had great success last winter, last school year, we saw virtually no spread in the classroom when all the kids were wearing masks. So we recommend, strong recommendation to our schools, that they do that. Now, some will do that, some will not, but it’s clear the evidence shows that that’s a way to really slow down spread in the school and we think it's very important."