The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will scale back most of its COVID-19 measures—including the mask mandate and weekly testing—for the upcoming school year.
The LAUSD announced these changes just two weeks before the start of the fall semester on Aug 15.
“As we have entered into a new phase of this virus where we have accessible at-home testing, vaccinations for COVID-19 and therapeutics available for treatment, Los Angeles Unified is able to nimbly adjust to changing conditions,” the district stated in an Aug. 2 statement.
Under the new guidelines, indoor masking is “strongly recommended” but not required, and the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students is on hold until at least 2023….