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Creeping COVID-19 cases result in few schools mask mandates

FILE - Lick-Wilmerding High School sophomore student leader Alia, left, speaks to students during a freshmen year Public Purpose Program workshop at the high school in San Francisco, March 9, 2022. U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, particularly in the Northeast, to bring back mask mandates and recommendations for the first time since the omicron winter surge ended and as the country approaches 1 million deaths in the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) FILE - Students exit through a stairwell during dismissal at Raices Dual Language Academy, a public school in Central Falls, R.I., Feb. 9, 2022. U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, particularly in the Northeast, to bring back mask mandates and recommendations for the first time since the omicron winter surge ended and as the country approaches 1 million deaths in the pandemic. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) FILE - Students, most wearing protective face masks over concerns for coronavirus, walk from North Quincy High School at the end of the school day in Quincy, Mass., Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, particularly in the Northeast, to bring back mask mandates and recommendations for the first time since the omicron winter surge ended and as the country approaches 1 million deaths in the pandemic. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) FILE - Children and their caregivers arrive for school in New York, March 7, 2022. U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, particularly in the Northeast, to bring back mask mandates and recommendations for the first time since the omicron winter surge ended and as the country approaches 1 million deaths in the pandemic. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) FILE - Kindergarten teacher Karen Drolet, left, works with a student at Raices Dual Language Academy, a public school in Central Falls, R.I., Feb. 9, 2022. U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, particularly in the Northeast, to bring back mask mandates and recommendations for the first time since the omicron winter surge ended and as the country approaches 1 million deaths in the pandemic. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) FILE - Students wearing mask as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus line up to receive KN95 protective masks at Camden High School in Camden, N.J., Feb. 9, 2022. U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, leading a smattering of school districts, particularly in the Northeast, to bring back mask mandates and recommendations for the first time since the omicron winter surge ended and as the country approaches 1 million deaths in the pandemic. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)