{"id":1449945,"date":"2022-04-22T09:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449945"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:25:42","slug":"in-less-than-a-week-philadelphia-reverses-mask-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-less-than-a-week-philadelphia-reverses-mask-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"In Less Than A Week, Philadelphia Reverses Mask Mandate"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fin-less-than-a-week-philadelphia-reverses-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=1449945&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 is lifting its mask mandate less than a week after authorities reinstated it due to rising COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Board of Health officials voted Thursday to rescind the mandate following a review of data, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/philadelphia-indoor-mask-mandate-department-of-health-covid-in-philly-policy\/11778105\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to decreasing hospitalizations and a leveling of case counts, the City will move to strongly recommending masks in indoor public spaces as opposed to a mask mandate,\u201d the city said in a statement to ABC 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the latest data, the Board of Health voted tonight to rescind the mandate,\u201d Philadelphia Mayor\u2019s Office deputy communications director Sarah Peterson <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/22\/us\/philadelphia-rescinds-mask-mandate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> CNN.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> Phila. indoor mask mandate coming to an end. Per Phila. Health Dept: \u201cDue to decreasing hospitalizations and a leveling of case counts, the City will move to strongly recommending masks in indoor public spaces as opposed to a mask mandate.\u201c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6abc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@6abc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Brooks (@BobBrooks6abc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobBrooks6abc\/status\/1517297747002634240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The mandate originally was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/11\/philadelphia-mask-mandate-covid-19-coronavirus-omicron-ba2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reinstated<\/a> due to a 50% increase in cases over the preceding two weeks, according to the report. Philadelphia County was averaging 149 COVID-19 cases per day but only two deaths, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/philadelphia-pennsylvania-covid-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. On March 2, those numbers were 107 and 5.7 respectively. Current data for Philadelphia County shows the COVID-19 community level is low, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/science\/community-levels.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate received public pushback with a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/18\/philadelphia-man-shoots-armed-home-intruder-pretending-to-be-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia<\/a> business owners and residents suing the city to overturn the mandate, arguing the city disregarded the CDC as a source for standards for masking and that the restaurant industry will face backlash from customers which could affect business, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/philadelphia-indoor-mask-mandate-lawusit-filed-commonwealth-of-pennsylvania-local-business-owners\/11756922\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6ABC<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/16\/philadelphia-drops-vaccine-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Philadelphia Drops Vaccine Mandate, Leaves Mask Mandate)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe citizens bringing this action today have had enough of Philadelphia acting in a way contrary to the rest of the world. Philadelphia is required, like everyone else, to comply with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. No one is above the law,\u201d Attorney Thomas W. King said, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia is lifting its mask mandate less than a week after authorities reinstated it due to rising COVID-19 cases.Board of Health officials voted Thursday to rescind the mandate following a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":1449975,"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-1449945","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\/1449945","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}