On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said that Georgia isn’t in a place where it can lift mask mandates in schools at the moment, and that if she’s elected, “my job will be, at that time, to look at the science, to look at the situation, and to make the best decision to protect our kids.”
Host Erin Burnett asked, “So, do you think it’s time to lift these mask requirements in schools? Would you lift them if you were governor of Georgia?”
Abrams responded, “COVID hygiene is going to be a point of debate for a very long time, and we can only follow the science and follow our circumstances. Unfortunately in Georgia, we’re not at a place where that conversation is ready. Because we have one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. We have 40% of our counties without general pediatricians. And…
