Public Pools Should Remain Closed For Now

Public Pools Should Remain Closed For Now

Public pools should stay closed at least through early summer, Dr. Steven Stack, the state’s public health commissioner, said Thursday. Explaining his reasoning, Stack mentioned the inability to maintain the social distancing guidelines needed to help contain the virus .“There’s just almost no way you can put together a whole bunch of kids and people at a public pool and not have folks socializing and violating the social distancing rules of greater than 6 feet,” Stack said. “It’s just not pragmatically possible.

Source: MG News


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