{"id":1350236,"date":"2022-02-28T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1350236"},"modified":"2022-02-28T18:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:22:58","slug":"new-york-to-end-statewide-mask-mandate-for-schools-nyc-expected-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-to-end-statewide-mask-mandate-for-schools-nyc-expected-to-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"New York To End Statewide Mask Mandate For Schools, NYC Expected To Follow"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fnew-york-to-end-statewide-mask-mandate-for-schools-nyc-expected-to-follow%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=1350236&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/NY-Mask-Mandates.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The state of New York will drop its mask mandate for schools, and New York City is expected to follow close behind.<\/p>\n<p>New York Democratic Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-announces-plan-end-state-mask-requirement-schools-starting-march-2\">Kathy Hochul<\/a> first announced on Sunday that she would be lifting the statewide school mask mandate beginning on Wednesday, March 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith more New Yorkers getting vaccinated, and the steady decline over the past several weeks in cases and hospitalizations from Omicron, we are now entering a new phase of the pandemic,\u201d Hochul said in a statement. \u201cBecause New Yorkers have stepped up, we can confidently remove the statewide mask requirement in our schools. This is a huge step forward for our kids and communities and I am grateful to the students, educators and parents for their dedication to keeping us all safe\u2014we\u2019ve reached this milestone because of your hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a press release announcing the move, the governor\u2019s office said that it made the decision to lift requirements because of continuing positive trends in COVID-19, and \u201cafter consulting with health and education experts, as well as parents, teachers and school administrators.\u201d The press release said that New York has the highest full vaccination rate for adults and teenagers among large states and the second-highest for children aged 5-11. The state has also seen a 98 percent drop in new COVID-19 cases, with a 51-day downward trend, and a substantial drop in both cases and hospitalizations among children.<\/p>\n<p>The state also said it made the decision after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance for mask-wearing. The Daily Wire reported Friday that the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cdc-updates-mask-guidance\">changed the metrics<\/a> it would be using to determine when and where people should wear masks. The new guidelines are based on three factors: new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents in the past seven days; new COVID-19-related hospital admissions; and the percentage of hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the statewide lifting of mask restrictions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/27\/nyregion\/new-york-mask-mandate-schools.html\">New York City<\/a> is expected to end its own set of mask requirements for schools. The New York Times reported Sunday that Democratic Mayor Eric Adams would eliminate its mask mandates for schools as well as its vaccine mandates for indoor spaces such as restaurants, gyms, and movie theaters by March 7 if the city\u2019s present trends of new COVID-19 cases remain low. Adams said he would make a final decision by Friday in order to give business owners time to adapt, the NYT reported. The vaccine mandate was imposed by former Democratic Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-de-blasio-announces-nyc-private-sector-vaccine-mandate-for-all-employees-new-requirements-for-children\">Bill de Blasio<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n<p>New York is the latest in a growing number of blue states that are ending their mask mandates for students in schools. The Daily Wire reported on Monday that the states of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/california-washington-oregon-to-lift-school-mask-mandates\">Washington, Oregon, and California<\/a> would lift their mask mandates on March 11th. New York\u2019s neighbor state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/coronavirus\/2022\/02\/murphy-will-still-wait-until-march-to-lift-nj-school-mask-mandate-despite-cdcs-new-covid-guidelines.html\">New Jersey<\/a>, also announced an end to its own mandates. Democratic Governor Phil Murphy said last week that the mandate for students would be lifted on March 7th, and the mandate for state offices \u201cin the relatively near future.\u201d Murphy also announced that he would give his <a href=\"https:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/gov-murphy-final-covid-19-briefing-to-be-held-march-4-2-years-after-virus-first-detected-in-nj\">final COVID-19 briefing<\/a> on March 4.<\/p>\n<p><i>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\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of New York will drop its mask mandate for schools, and New York City is expected to follow close behind.New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul first announced on<\/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-1350236","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\/1350236","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=1350236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350236\/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=1350236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}