Amid a slight uptick in COVID-19 cases across the nation and the discovery of new variants, some schools have moved back to mask mandates for the start of the academic year. From August 20 to August 26, there was an increase of 15.7 percent in new COVID-19 hospitalizations when compared to the previous week, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and an increase of 1.4 percent in positive tests for the same period. The CDC said that the BA.2.86. variant was found in samples from people traveling into the United States from Denmark and Israel and...
