More than 3.6 million children in the United States have tested positive, and at least 297 have died, according to the latest report from American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. One reason schools require masks is to try to prevent kids from giving the virus to other people, which can happen even if kids become infected but don’t show symptoms.
Moreover, because adults are being immunized and new variants of the virus are more likely to infect children, "children are rapidly becoming the major reservoir of COVID in the United States," said Dr. Mark Schleiss, professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. People are rushing to get back to normal when we still know so little about covid a vaccinated person can catch and spread covid to children who don't even have a vaccine available to them yet. I'm all for the vaccine just not opening up everything and throwing away the mask when we are still in the dark about so many issues with covid and it's vaccines.