{"id":1352435,"date":"2022-03-01T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1352435"},"modified":"2022-03-01T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:42:10","slug":"what-changed-in-the-science-fox-news-bill-hemmer-asks-psaki-after-white-house-lifts-mask-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-changed-in-the-science-fox-news-bill-hemmer-asks-psaki-after-white-house-lifts-mask-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What Changed In The Science?\u2019 Fox News\u2019 Bill Hemmer Asks Psaki After White House Lifts Mask Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fwhat-changed-in-the-science-fox-news-bill-hemmer-asks-psaki-after-white-house-lifts-mask-mandate%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=1352435&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\/2022\/03\/White-House-Press-Sec.-Jen-Psaki-speaks-on-Fox-News-about-the-mask-mandate-Screenshot-Fox-News-e1646150271334.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Bill Hemmer pushed White House press secretary Jen Psaki Tuesday on the decision to lift the White House\u2019s mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p>While discussing on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom\u201d how Washington, D.C., ended mask mandates as of midnight and the White House is no longer requiring masks, Hemmer asked \u201cwhat changed in the science yesterday, Monday, as opposed to a week ago Monday?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] put out guidance last Friday that identified recommendations depending on what the hospitalization rates are in your part of the country,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cWe\u2019re currently in a part of the country in Washington, D.C., where it\u2019s very low, the rates. So we\u2019re not, the recommendation is not to wear masks. We aren\u2019t wearing masks at the White House. The president won\u2019t wear a mask tonight. It is different depending on the part of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s capitol <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/14\/washington-dc-to-drop-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-for-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> Feb. 14 that the city would drop both the vaccine mandate and mask mandate. The vaccine mandate ended Feb. 15, while the mask mandate for indoor public venues was dropped Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic leaders across the nation <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/08\/new-york-mask-vaccine-mandate-covid-coronavirus-kathy-hochul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continue to roll back<\/a> COVID-19 restrictions such as mask mandates. As blue states loosened their masking requirements, President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/10\/premature-biden-disagreement-blue-states-loosening-mask-mandates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> earlier in February that he would stick to CDC guidance and that \u201cscience [says] now that masks work, masks make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI committed that I would follow the science,\u201d Biden said during an NBC interview, noting the rollbacks were probably \u201cpremature.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/24\/united-states-marine-corps-covid-vaccine-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: This Family\u2019s Decades-Long Military Service Ended Due To The COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the science as put forward by the CDC and the federal people and I think it\u2019s probably premature but it\u2019s a tough call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/25\/cdc-mask-guidance-mandates-covid-19-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated its guidance<\/a> Friday to no longer recommend mask-wearing in most indoor settings. Under the new guidance, individuals living in what the CDC defines as high-risk areas are recommended to still mask up indoors, while those in medium- or low-risk areas are advised to get vaccinated or get tested if sick.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News\u2019 Bill Hemmer pushed White House press secretary Jen Psaki Tuesday on the decision to lift the White House\u2019s mask mandate.While discussing on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom\u201d how Washington,<\/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-1352435","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\/1352435","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=1352435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352435\/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=1352435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}