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Austin ISD gets COVID and monkeypox briefing; health officials urge vaccination and masking options
Summary
Austin Public Health and district health staff told trustees COVID remains active locally but at lower community levels; officials also briefed trustees on monkeypox, symptoms, transmission and the limited, targeted vaccine supply and described AISD communications and vaccination clinics for staff and families.
Austin Public Health Director Dr. Desmar Wachs and Austin ISD health leaders briefed the board on local COVID trends, CDC isolation and exposure guidance and the community’s response to a concurrent monkeypox outbreak.
Dr. Wachs said the Central Texas community level for COVID was low at the time of the briefing but cautioned that hospitalizations and pediatric cases were still occurring. She summarized the CDC’s updated August guidance on shortening isolation for symptomatic people from 10 days to five days followed by masking when certain testing criteria are met, and she described exposure guidance that recommends…
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