Thread by @DrEricDing

CHILD ENDANGERMENT—Florida's second-largest school district last week imposed a mask mandate—but on Monday said it will no longer impose mandate after @GovRonDeSantis (R) threatened to withhold funding from districts that require face coverings. #COVID19 🧵axios.com/desantis-flori…

2) @browardschools County Public Schools announced last week that it would require mask use after the CDC issued new guidance recommending universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students and visitors to K-12 schools this school year, regardless of vaccination status.

3) DeSantis on Friday issued an executive order barring local school districts from requiring students to wear masks when they return to the classroom next month.

4) The order: "if State Board of Education determines that a district school board is unwilling or unable to comply, the State shall have authority to withhold the transfer of state funds, discretionary grant funds—& declare the school district ineligible for competitive grants."

5) Meanwhile… here is how it’s going in Florida. Hospitalizations surging to all time record!!!

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1422569185050251268

6) Kids and COVID? Dr Mark Kline at Children's Hospital New Orleans: "#DeltaVariant is every infectious disease specialist's worst nightmare. There was a myth—that children were somehow immune—It has become very clear that children are heavily impacted"

7) LET THIS SINK IN— 1 out of every 1900 Florida residents are laying in a hospital bed right. If you bought 153000 lottery ticket today, your chance of winning jackpot = your chance of being in the hospital in FL.

But @GovRonDeSantis @RonDeSantisFL care? No. Child endangerment.

8) What’s also as worse as death or hospitalization? Brain damage and IQ impairment… which people can suffer even if not hospitalized!!

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1419873294023602176

9) Here it is… a 9 year old in ICU in Florida on a ventilator. @RonDeSantisFL? Cmon @GovRonDeSantis

https://twitter.com/FakeNewsHuntres/status/1422631652036018178

10) DO NOT sacrifice our kids and their future!! Desperate plea from a Florida school superintendent

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1423070376507199491

11) schools are now begging and pleading for help

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1423118172857716736