{"id":1187129,"date":"2022-01-04T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187129"},"modified":"2022-01-04T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:05:12","slug":"nbcs-today-show-pushes-tightly-masking-small-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbcs-today-show-pushes-tightly-masking-small-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC\u2019s Today Show Pushes Tightly Masking Small Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnbcs-today-show-pushes-tightly-masking-small-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187129&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On NBC\u2019s TODAY Show on Tuesday, the show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/what-kind-of-masks-should-children-wear-in-school-130084421840\">pushed for parents<\/a> to double-mask their small schoolchildren, and recommended that everyone wear a mask that is \u201cvery, very snug\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked what are the types of masks we should have, NBC investigative and consumer correspondent Vicky Nguyen first listed cloth masks, but then said many public health experts were recommending surgical masks or KN95 or N95 masks. She told the show\u2019s hosts of the KN95 mask, \u201cThey go all the way over your head. Not the most comfortable, but very, very snug. Not a lot of air is getting in between the sides of my cheeks or the tops of my cheeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Host Craig Melvin asked, \u201cHey, Vic, the kids are back in the classroom, at least the overwhelming majority of them. What\u2019s the recommendation for our youngest learners?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, so we talked to [NBC News\u2019 Medical Correspondent] Dr. John Torres about this because I actually just sent my kids out the door this morning, minutes ago, with two masks,\u201d Nguyen answered. \u201cHe says obviously the KN95, N95 are the most effective but it can be really hard to find them in small kids\u2019 sizes and also to keep them on your kids all day, they\u2019re not the most comfortable. So the second best option is to make sure you have a kids\u2019 size surgical mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the way, look at what a difference the kids\u2019 size mask is from the adult size. So you really want to make sure you have one that fits your child\u2019s face, and you want to layer the cloth mask over that mask,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo the surgical mask goes on first and then the cloth mask. If you can\u2019t do that, surgical mask alone. Dr. Torres says least best, but better than nothing, the two-layer cotton mask that fits your child. The best mask, certainly, is the one that your child will wear and keep on the whole day when they\u2019re in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Zweig reported in the left-leaning publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2021\/12\/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky\/621035\/\">The Atlantic<\/a> in mid-December:<\/p>\n<p><em>The World Health Organization, for example, does&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\/question-and-answers-hub\/q-a-detail\/q-a-children-and-masks-related-to-covid-19\">not recommend<\/a>&nbsp;masks for children under age 6. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/covid-19\/questions-answers\/questions-answers-school-transmission\">recommends against<\/a>&nbsp;the use of masks for any children in primary school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zweig pointed out that CDC recommended&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/community\/schools-childcare\/k-12-guidance.html\">all kids 2 and older should be masked in school<\/a> and that CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky cited an Arizona study. He pointed out:<\/p>\n<p><em>But the Arizona study at the center of the CDC\u2019s back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. \u201cYou can\u2019t learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study,\u201d Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University, told me. His view echoed the assessment of eight other experts who reviewed the research, and with whom I spoke for this article.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On NBC\u2019s TODAY Show on Tuesday, the show pushed for parents to double-mask their small schoolchildren, and recommended that everyone wear a mask that is \u201cvery, very snug\u201d Asked what are the types of masks we should have, NBC investigative and consumer correspondent Vicky Nguyen first listed cloth masks, but then said many public health &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}