The second-largest school district in Orange County, California is calling on the state to end the weekly COVID-19 testing required for unvaccinated school employees following nearly identical case rates between unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals in the county.
In a 4-2 vote on July 13, the Capistrano Unified school board passed a resolution to ask the state California Department of Public Health to set an expiration date for the August 2021 order mandating weekly COVID-19 testing of unvaccinated workers and those who are not fully vaccinated.
Trustee Judy Bullockus, who introduced the resolution, said ahead of the vote that this resolution was brought forward so “all people, vaccinated and unvaccinated, are treated fairly in terms of any mitigation of COVID-19 in the future.”…