New poll finds Pennsylvanians support mask mandates in school, split on vaccine mandates

Muhlenberg College poll focuses on COVID-19

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  Scott LaMar has worked in both radio and television for more than four decades.
  
  Currently, LaMar is the Host and Executive Producer of the daily Smart Talk news and public affairs program on WITF-FM, 89.5 & 93.3 in Harrisburg, Pa.
  
  Previously, LaMar was WITF TV’s Sr. Public Affairs producer and produced the station’s award-winning weekly public affairs TV program Smart Talk.
  
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  The American Society of Civil Engineers honored LaMar with their national Excellence in Journalism award in 2020. LaMar was the only recipient of the award nationally. He has won more than a dozen Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcast Awards since 2000 and has been nominated for five Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards.
  
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  A native of Coatesville, Pa., LaMar has also worked as a broadcast news anchor, sports play-by-play announcer and manager.

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Small children with face mask back at school after covid-19 quarantine and lockdown, writing.

Airdate: Monday, December 6, 2021

Pennsylvanians don’t like how their leaders are handling COVID-19 twenty-two months into the pandemic but tend to support masking in schools and vaccines. That’s according to the latest Muhlenberg College Poll that focused on COVID. Neither President Joe Biden or Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf got high marks for how they’re handling COVID mitigation efforts.

Pennsylvanians are split almost evenly on whether employers should mandate that their employees get vaccinated against the virus.

Christopher Borick, professor of political science and director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion appears on Monday’s Smart Talk.