College Brings Back COVID Mask Mandate
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One College is bringing back its COVID mask mandate.
Morris Brown College announced, “Effective immediately, Morris Brown College has reinstated its COVID-19 mask mandate due to reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center.”
Atlanta’s Morris Brown College is re-embracing mask mandates, years after initial panic over the coronavirus.
While many universities and colleges have dropped coronavirus mandates — such as vaccine requirements and mask requirements — some clearly remaining open to reinstating them. Atlanta’s Morris Brown College is among those, sharing the announcement on social media this week.
The August 20 update states, “Effective immediately, Morris Brown College has reinstated its COVID-19 mask mandate due to reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center.”
Because of that, the school is requiring all students and employees to mask up, maintain physical distance, avoid large gatherings, and comply with contract-tracing for the next 14 days.
This comes as information from the CDC shows a rise in hospitalizations in Georgia.
Recent information from the Centers for Disease Control indicates that a new Covid variant has become more prevalent across Georgia, with a rise in hospitalizations of up to 30% across the state.
“This is what endemic means — it doesn’t go away,” said Dr. Jayne Morgan, executive director of Health and Community Education at Piedmont Healthcare. “We know now, with this heat wave, so many people have been driven indoors, when we’re usually outdoors. We’re also traveling a lot during the summer, so we’re carrying the virus from one group to the next.”
Medical experts have indicated that they are watching new variants like EG.5, which the World Health Organization has determined is a variant of interest.
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