Members of the Lodi School District’s Medical Advisory Committee continued to express cautious optimism in their first meeting of the regular school year, with COVID counts in the single digits and the county showing low transmission.
District Nurse Jean Winter told committee members there was “not much data to look at,” giving a review of their local data up through Sept. 3.
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