NPR reported that probability of children succumbing to COVID-19 is between 0.00% and 0.03%. | Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema
NPR reported that probability of children succumbing to COVID-19 is between 0.00% and 0.03%. | Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema
The Antioch Unified School District requires masking following Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mandate for the public school system, and some parents are speaking out.
Sherry Crichton said that the best decision regarding masks would be to let parents decide what is best for their child.
"The citizens fighting for their children‘s physical and mental health have awakened! The parents I meet with are determined to change this. This is about giving families medical freedom. Parents deserve the freedom and right to do what is best for their children in consultation with their doctors. Blanket mandates made by out-of-touch bureaucrats aren't the right way to keep our kids safe — parental power is," Crichton said.
Both Antioch Community High School District 117 and Antioch Elementary School District 34 are requiring students to wear masks.
The Antioch School District 34 will require all students, staff, and visitors to wear a face-covering while in Antioch CCSD 34 buildings and on school buses, according to Superintendent Bradford Hubbard.
NPR reported that the probability of children succumbing to COVID-19 is between 0.00% and 0.03%, according to state data available. Across the country, 94,000 children were infected with COVID-19 last week, accounting for 15% of new cases in the country.
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marty Makary said in a July episode of "Fox and Friends" that there is inadequate data regarding mask use for children older than three.
"Look, kids who are healthy are extremely low risk and constitute such a small minority of overall cases,” Makary said. “0.05%, that's five-hundredths of 1%. Even though they're 20% of the U.S. population. We've lost all sense of risk. It's distorted. More kids die from the common cold."
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