Letter to the editor: If masks offer even slim protection, why not wear them?

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Tribune-Review | Friday, September 17, 2021 7:00 a.m.

As I read the articles on the efforts of parents and school districts to deal with the mask/no mask issue, I also read this information:

More than a quarter-million children had new cases of covid in just the last week of August, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

In the U.S., 750,000 children tested positive between Aug. 5 and Sept. 2, the AAP said.

In the same period, 54,859 children were admitted to hospitals with covid, according to the CDC.

If there is even a slim chance that masks protect our children from illness and hospitalization, why is this even an issue?

Vickie Oles

Ligonier Township