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. 2021 Dec 7;149(1):e2021054396.
doi: 10.1542/peds.2021-054396. Online ahead of print.

School Safety, Masking, and the Delta Variant

Angelique E Boutzoukas  1   2 , Kanecia O Zimmerman  1   2   3 , Daniel K Benjamin  1   2   3
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School Safety, Masking, and the Delta Variant

Angelique E Boutzoukas et al. Pediatrics. .
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Conflict of interest statement

POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Angelique Boutzoukas receives salary support through the US government National Institute of Child Health and Human Development T32 training grant (1T32HD094671). Kanecia Zimmerman reports funding from the National Institutes of Health and US Food and Drug Administration. Daniel Benjamin reports consultancy for Allergan, Melinta Therapeutics, Sun Pharma Advanced Research Co.

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COVID-19 Infections among summer school staff and students. COVID-19 infections among >70 000 North Carolina summer school staff and students, displayed according to weekly cases acquired in school versus cases acquired outside of school, with an overlay of weekly proportion of SARS-CoV-2 isolates in the region consistent with the B.167.2 (Delta) variant. a Percentage of Delta variant in Department of Health and Human Services region 4, which includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
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