Sep 2, 2021, 12:24 PM
(From Forbes) A growing number of K-12 parents have or intend to vaccinate their children against Covid-19 as a new school year gets underway amid the delta variant surge, a new Gallup poll finds — but approximately 46% of parents do not plan to do so. The Kaiser Family Foundation found that 25% to 30% of parents with younger children would “definitely not” get them vaccinated.
Gallup also found that 48% of parents support mask mandates in school for all students and 11% support them for only unvaccinated students, versus 41% who say they should not be required for any student. The 59% of parents who support some kind of student mask mandate is largely unchanged from the 57% of parents in a July Gallup poll who supported masks for unvaccinated students, which at the time was in line with public health guidance for schools before the delta variant caused stricter recommendations.
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