(CNN) The Broward County School Board voted Tuesday to maintain the school district's mask mandate that was originally approved July 28. Broward County schools started school Tuesday. It's deadly, and it's getting worse instead of better and the more we don't use masks, the more we position the mutation of this virus to grow," said Rosalind Osgood, school board chair, during the special board meeting Tuesday. She later told CNN she's not willing to "risk and play Russian roulette" with children who can't get vaccinated. Requests to opt out of the mask mandate "will be considered due to medical needs, Individual Education Plans or Section 504 accommodations," the school division news release said.

Source: CNN August 10, 2021 20:10 UTC