The CDC recommends universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to schools, regardless of vaccination status. The decision to mandate masks in schools should be left up to school districts and health departments, not the governor or legislature. Utah should lift the ban on mask mandates and allow schools and health departments make that call.

COVID-19 prevention strategies remain critical to protect people, including students, teachers, and staff, who are not fully vaccinated, especially in areas of moderate-to-high community transmission levels.