Tell Governors to Stop Playing COVID Politics with Our Kids’ Health!

Quick signature: Tell Governors to stop playing COVID politics with our kids’ health!

At this moment, just as schools are opening for the fall, the Delta variant is sickening an unprecedented number of children and pediatric ICU beds are filling up. Yet, some governors have been taking mind-boggling actions to block and intimidate local school officials from taking reasonable public health measures in order to slow the spread of COVID-19 and keep schools open. In fact, in some states, despite court cases ruling a mask ban illegal, governors are doubling down and withholding funds from school districts that mandate masks to protect the health of their students as punishment. Not okay!

A teacher and student wearing masks over their nose and mouth

Quick signature: Tell Governors in AZ, FL, IA, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT you are outraged, and to stop playing politics with our kids’ health!

Dear Governors Ducey, DeSantis, Reynolds, Stitt, McMaster, Lee, Abbott, & Cox:

We are outraged - stop playing politics with our kids’ health! The ban you issued on masking in schools is contrary to public health experts’ recommendations and risks our children’s health and ability to keep schools open. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) all agree that to protect children’s health extra public health measures are critical right now.

While the Delta variant is spreading like wildfire and pediatric ICUs are filling up in your state, we can’t waste another minute to take action to slow the spread of COVID-19. To protect our kids and keep them in school, we need a layered approach to prevent the spread of COVID-19 with state officials working alongside school districts, parents, and schoolchildren to stem the spread—NOT against them!

We need our leaders to follow the recommendations of nationally and internationally respected public health experts. We need everyone who can to get vaccinated. We need universal masking while COVID numbers are up. And we need to adhere to proven safety practices like masking, ventilation, testing, social distancing, and hand washing. When it comes to the health and safety of our children, we demand leadership—not blocking safety measures and political games!

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