{"id":1259546,"date":"2022-01-31T20:24:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T01:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1259546"},"modified":"2022-01-31T20:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T01:24:36","slug":"house-republicans-demand-cdc-explain-nonsensical-guidance-that-forces-kids-into-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-demand-cdc-explain-nonsensical-guidance-that-forces-kids-into-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Demand CDC Explain &#039;Nonsensical Guidance that Forces Kids into Masks&#039;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fhouse-republicans-demand-cdc-explain-nonsensical-guidance-that-forces-kids-into-masks%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=1259546&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/children-wearing-masks-in-school-coronavirus-stock-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House Republicans on Monday sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky, demanding she explain the federal health agency\u2019s scientific basis for its coronavirus guidance on children in schools, including the \u201cnonsensical\u201d recommendation for universal masking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBREAKING: Just sent a letter to the CDC Director demanding she explain the nonsensical guidance that forces kids into masks &amp; doesn\u2019t account for irreversible harm to kids\u2019 social &amp; education development,\u201d House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) said on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re following the politics\u2014not \u2018The Science.\u2019 Kids deserve better,\u201d he added:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Just sent a letter to the CDC Director demanding she explain the nonsensical guidance that forces kids into masks &amp; doesn\u2019t account for irreversible harm to kids&#8217; social &amp; education development.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re following the politics\u2014not \u201cThe Science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kids deserve better.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveScalise\/status\/1488213712414593024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter itself notes that the CDC has \u201cconsistently failed to consider the crushing impact its COVID-19 policies have had on our nation\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe have long known transmission among children is low and symptoms are mild for most of them,\u201d the Republicans wrote. \u201cYet, the CDC has refused to follow the science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather, it has blindly tried to prevent infection at all costs\u2014sacrificing our children\u2019s mental, physical, and emotional health,\u201d they continued, warning that America\u2019s children are \u201cpaying\u2014and will continue to pay\u2014the price for the CDC\u2019s decisions for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter specifically blasts the CDC for current guidance recommending the quarantine of any student in close contact with someone who tests positive for the virus:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This can lead to weeks long disruptions for entire classrooms creating instability for students and childcare chaos for working parents. There are major health, social, developmental, and educational risks to keeping children home from school. Schools are a vital point of contact for public health services: mental health support, special therapies, free school meals, physical activity, early developmental skills, and sighting signs of child abuse at home.1 Vaccines are available for anyone over five years of age and Congress allocated $190 billion to reopen schools safely.2 No student should be forced to learn virtually.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans also wrote that the current CDC guidance, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/community\/schools-childcare\/k-12-guidance.html\">recommends<\/a> \u201cuniversal indoor masking by all students (ages 2 years and older), staff, teachers, and visitors to K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status,\u201d does not follow the science, as \u201cthe extent of the protection masks provide, particularly in schools, remains unknown\u2014and it might be very small.\u201d Yet, the CDC, Republicans continued, have relied on a \u201cflawed study from Arizona\u201d to push the policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The CDC continues to rely on and cite to a flawed study from Arizona, which the CDC published in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, to defend masking children in schools. This study did not control for days students actually spent in the classroom, improved ventilation, vaccination status or other mitigation measures. Instead, the schools without mask mandates were in session for more days during the data collection than those who had mask mandates\u2014nearly doubling the in-person time for students in schools without mask mandates. The Arizona study data does not paint an accurate picture of mask effectiveness for children in school.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Further, other studies relied upon by the CDC do not show that masks, on their own, provide any additional protection to children. Several experts note it is entirely possible that open windows or increased ventilation accounts for nearly all the mitigation benefit in a classroom and other \u201clayered\u201d interventions may contribute only a marginal benefit or none at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They also noted the other issues associated with forcing children to wear masks, including how masks hinder language development and affect them emotionally and socially.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCovering a child\u2019s face mutes these nonverbal forms of communication and can result in robotic and emotionless interactions, anxiety, and depression,\u201d they wrote.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Republicans concluded that the CDC\u2019s guidances \u201chave failed to factor in\u2014let alone prioritize\u2014children\u2019s social, emotional, and educational development.\u201d They added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In fact, CDC is undermining its own credibility as it continues to jeopardize an entire generation\u2019s development. In order to better understand the CDC\u2019s decisions regarding America\u2019s children, please schedule a staff briefing on all of the above topics no later than February 7, 2022.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The full letter, signed by Scalise, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY), as well as Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Mark Green (R-TN), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanwhip.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Letter-to-CDC-Director-1312022.pdf\">here<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans on Monday sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky, demanding she explain the federal health agency\u2019s scientific basis for its coronavirus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1259546","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\/1259546","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259546\/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=1259546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}