Dear Sir/ Madam
As per CDC guidelines, unvaccinated people should wear mask to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 transmission and from falling severely ill. With the widespread increase of the COVID- delta variant in all 50 US states, children below the age of 12 (who are not eligible for the vaccines) are remaining in a high risk category to contract this infectious disease. There have been enough documented cases showing children can also fall severely sick with the delta variant and even many fatalities have occurred. Hence, please mandate that children below 12 years old must wear masks during the upcoming school year. Many parents like me who have younger children in the household are remaining very worried and anxious about this situation not being dealt with the required scientific and logical perspective by the EPS school administrators. Our children’s lives should not be part of any political or personal choice agendas and as parents it is a humanitarian choice to enforce a mandatory mask usage policy for children below 12 years of age.