{"id":1484279,"date":"2022-05-19T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484279"},"modified":"2022-05-19T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:32:00","slug":"deja-vu-all-over-again-cdc-wants-more-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deja-vu-all-over-again-cdc-wants-more-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu All Over Again: CDC Wants More Masking"},"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%2Fdeja-vu-all-over-again-cdc-wants-more-masking%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=1484279&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Agency is reluctant to make &#8216;concrete predictions,&#8217; however<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAnthony Fauci, center, at a 2022 White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner event\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 May 19, 2022 12:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants at least &#8220;a third of the U.S. population&#8221; to wear masks indoors, even though it won&#8217;t say whether the pandemic will get worse, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-5bcd49eec7dab5832f2d98f4f9b22be7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While the CDC said COVID-19 cases are increasing in the Northeast and the Midwest, the agency is urging local leaders around the country &#8220;to encourage use of prevention strategies like masks in public indoor settings,&#8221; Director Rochelle Walensky said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency was reluctant to make &#8220;concrete predictions,&#8221; however, saying it is unsure &#8220;to what degree previous infections will protect against new variants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While COVID-19 hospitalizations are slowly rising, they are much lower than during the Omicron wave, Walensky said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/supercut-wear-a-mask-dems-rarely-follow-own-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Many Democratic officials<\/a>,\u00a0including White House chief medical adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/fauci-mask-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/fancy-nerd-explosion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fauci<\/a>, have repeatedly gone maskless at public gatherings even while they tell Americans to wear face coverings. Fauci last month publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/fauci-courts-should-stay-out-of-cdcs-way-on-mask-mandates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fumed<\/a> at the court ruling that overturned the federal travel mask mandate, calling it &#8220;disturbing&#8221; that a federal judge can overrule the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/hubris-exposed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shown<\/a>\u00a0that wearing masks, particularly cloth masks, have little effect on the spread of COVID-19. Nearly half of all parents, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/poll-nearly-half-of-parents-say-masks-at-school-hurt-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">say<\/a>\u00a0that mandated mask wearing in schools has harmed their children.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus Agency is reluctant to make &#8216;concrete predictions,&#8217; however  Anthony Fauci, center, at a 2022 White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner event  Karl Salzmann \u2022 May 19,<\/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-1484279","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\/1484279","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=1484279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484279\/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=1484279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}