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BY CHRISTINA GRAY Lead writer, Catholic San Francisco grayc@sfarch.org
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CSF: The new year marks almost two years of dealing with the changing complexities of the COVID-19 pandemic in our schools. Where are we today in terms of masks, testing and vaccines for students and staff? Pamela Lyons: Like everything else with the pandemic, it has been a little complicated, but things are running smoothly. Dealing with COVID-19 is just something we do now. We are still following all the individual county health guidelines. Unless a medical exemption has been granted, all students and staff at our schools wear masks indoors. Some schools that aren’t required to are still masking outdoors to be extra-cautious. The kids are so used to wearing masks that more than half of them are still wearing them outside at the schools where they don’t have to. Last year if someone came down with COVID-19, the entire cohort had to stay JANUARY 2022 | CATHOLIC Photo SAN FRANCISCO by Dennis Callahan
