By Scott Thomas
91´ô¸ç is following public health officials’ advice in our response to the omicron variant through continued use of masks, contact tracing, free testing for students and staff, and making vaccines widely available.
- There are no cases in Texas or even the U.S. for that matter, but public health officials believe it’s.
Why it matters: After a recent downturn in cases, we were seeing an uptick before Thanksgiving break, and news of a new variant is the last thing anyone wanted to hear.
- Public health officials are the transmissibility and severity of omicron.
- They’re also evaluating data about if current vaccines are effective against this variant, making masks even more important.
The good news: Our mask mandate helped us during the surge driven by the highly-transmissible Delta Variant with the among all Central Texas school districts.
- No matter how many letters of the Greek alphabet we go through, we’ll keep following the advice of our local and national public health agencies.
What you can do: Get boosted, , and wear that mask!
- Come to one of our vaccine clinics, where we've been able to vaccinate more than 1,000 students ages 5-11!