Tennessee hospitals are setting new records each day, caring for more covid patients than ever. The most critical patients are almost all unvaccinated, meaning ICUs are filled with regretful patients hoping for a second chance.
Louisville Rep. Attica Scott’s bill would require schools to teach about a list of subjects including the slave trade, the Civil War, Jim Crow laws, residential segregation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A spokesman said the district wants to prevent a spike in quarantine absenteeism. The district will review the policy over fall break in early October.
The largest randomized controlled study of masks, led by researchers from Stanford and Yale universities, is the latest that clearly supports the value of wearing surgical masks for reducing infection.
Republicans who control the legislature, and a few Democratic lawmakers, have said they trust local school officials to make the right decisions, but Beshear countered that school districts across the country have not done that.
The president said he will require vaccinations — with no exceptions for regular testing among the unvaccinated — for employees of Head Start programs and Defense Department contractors
