Virus spread was 62% higher in school districts without mask rules- where the infection rate averaged 73 cases per 100 thousand students by late September.

"With COVID-19, people think about life and death," Karyn Bishof told Insider. "They overlook those of us who didn't die but haven't survived yet."

"They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young," Neil Young wrote in a letter asking Spotify to remove all of his music from the service. "Not both."

New COVID-19 cohorting rules cite evolving epidemiology around the Omicron variant, which they say "generally causes mild disease particularly in fully vaccinated individuals."