{"id":1433033,"date":"2022-04-12T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433033"},"modified":"2022-04-12T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:31:21","slug":"philly-brings-back-masks-as-most-americans-say-covid-crisis-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philly-brings-back-masks-as-most-americans-say-covid-crisis-has-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly Brings Back Masks as Most Americans Say COVID Crisis Has Passed"},"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%2Fphilly-brings-back-masks-as-most-americans-say-covid-crisis-has-passed%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=1433033&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><\/div>\n<p>Philadelphia became the first major city in the country to reinstate its indoor mask mandate even as fewer than 1 in 10 Americans describe COVID-19 as &#8220;a serious crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia health commissioner Cheryl Bettigole announced Monday that, as of April 18, anyone who enters a building must be masked. The city made the decision based on &#8220;daily case counts and hospitalizations ticking above its own self-imposed benchmarks,&#8221; NBC 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/watch-will-philly-reinstate-indoor-mask-mandate\/3204175\/?_osource=db_npd_nbc_wcau_twt_shr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s benchmarks differ from those given by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says that COVID-19 spread is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/your-health\/covid-by-county.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">low<\/a> in Philadelphia and does not recommend wearing masks in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s decision comes as an <em>Axios<\/em>-Ipsos poll published Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/axios-ipsos-poll-most-americans-say-covid-is-no-longer-a-crisis-6604f7d2-a476-48eb-8e2d-9cb94c425159.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> only 9 percent of Americans say COVID-19 is still &#8220;a serious crisis&#8221; in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Almost twice as many Americans said that the coronavirus is &#8220;no problem at all&#8221; than said it is &#8220;a serious crisis,&#8221; <em>Axios<\/em> noted. A large majority\u201473 percent of Americans, including 66 percent of Republicans and 81 percent of Democrats\u2014say it is &#8220;a problem, but manageable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia businesses blasted the health department&#8217;s order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This announcement is a major blow to thousands of small businesses and other operators in the city who were hoping this spring would be the start of recovery,&#8221; said Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association senior director Ben Fileccia.<\/p>\n<p>Business leaders aren&#8217;t the only people to disagree with the mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia&#8217;s Policy Lab said Friday that hospitalizations have stayed low and that &#8220;our team advises against required masking given that hospital capacity is good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia became the first major city in the country to reinstate its indoor mask mandate even as fewer than 1 in 10 Americans describe COVID-19 as &#8220;a serious crisis.&#8221; Philadelphia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433033","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\/1433033","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433033\/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=1433033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}