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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Wordpress-Masks-in-schools-have-mask-mandates-become-a-proxy-for-trust-in-public-health.jpg19201080The latest COVID-19 variant began “spreading like wildfire” in and around schools this past spring by all accounts. With daily case counts reaching 100,000 in Ontario in early April, teachers and parents, with the support of Toronto infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch, were demanding that mask mandates be reinstated. When the Ontario mask mandate […]