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New York state will provide COVID-19 tests and masks in school districts amid a recent spike in cases over the summer, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Tuesday.

The announcement also comes after the recent discovery of the BA.2.86 subvariant in New York City’s sewage, according to city officials.

Hochul’s office Wednesday said the state will conduct outreach to the Education Department and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) to determine each district’s needs for the test kits and masks, including both N95 and KN95 masks.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Considering the costs of distributing either N95s or KN95s to schools, which would have to be renewed every day, I think they're pretty scared. Not a good sign.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

As far as I know they are not requiring masking, they're just making the masks available if anyone wants them, so the volume used is going to be a lot lower than 1/student/day.

[–] archiotterpup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've started seeing more masks on the train lately. People aren't messing around.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I wore a mask to take my cat to the vet last week. First time putting one on in a bit (and I kept them on a while after most took them off). I'll for sure be masking when the weather gets colder and people have to be indoors most of the time.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Here comes the conservative SCOTUS ruling making it unconstitutional to provide COVID tests and masks in public schools in 3...2...

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And red state "cooftards" will bash this as government overreach or godknowswhat.

[–] randomperson@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Oh dang. We're all gonna die just like the last time.