The Case Counts, the Positivity Rate, the Hospitalizations

The key number that we should be looking at is hostilizations. If our icys and pitals in that particular region are not overwhelmed, if they're not over capacity, then we should be able to relax all restrictions. That doesn't mean that masking doesn’t have its place for children. When there are very high rates of hosbilization. If we get a new varia in the future that children are particularly susceptible to, we may want to bring masks back. But we should also be intellectually honest and say that masking has had a cost,. especially for the youngest learnersa people with english is a second language, children with learning disabilities, there has been