@WCVB This is not a COVID **outbreak**. Children with no symptoms (that wore masks) are forced to quarantine because of a few positive test results.
Alt headline: Full classes of healthy masked children are being denied access to public education due to overly restrictive protocols
I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but arbitrary public health interventions undermine the public's trust in public health and burns their energy.
We need the public to trust public health.
And we need them to have the energy to follow through on high-yield recommendations.