{"id":2026701,"date":"2023-09-09T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-health-director-not-focused-on-mask-mandates-returning-as-covid-cases-rise\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T15:15:19","slug":"la-health-director-not-focused-on-mask-mandates-returning-as-covid-cases-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-health-director-not-focused-on-mask-mandates-returning-as-covid-cases-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"LA health director unconcerned about reintroducing mask mandates despite increasing COVID cases."},"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%2Fla-health-director-not-focused-on-mask-mandates-returning-as-covid-cases-rise%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=2026701&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--><h2>Los \u200cAngeles County Public \u2062Health Director Not Focused on Mask\u200b Mandates<\/h2>\n<p>Los Angeles County \u2064Public Health Director\u2062 Barbara Ferrer says she is &#8220;not focused&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hhs-report-recommends-bringing-back-mask-mandates\/\" title=\"HHS Report Recommends Bringing Back Mask Mandates\">bringing back mask mandates<\/a> for the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governor-ducey-defends-signing-off-on-fraudulent-election-dirtbag-ignored-massive-evidence-of-fraud-whys-that\/\" title=\"Arizona Governor Ducey Defends Signing Off on Fraudulent Election -- Dirtbag Ignored Massive Evidence of Fraud... Why's That?\">populous county<\/a> in the country, even as COVID-19 cases see an uptick.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrer told the Los Angeles Times \u2062in an interview that if the outbreak of coronavirus returned \u200bto levels where she believes a mandate\u200c would be \u2064warranted,\u200b most people would already be voluntarily\u2064 wearing\u2062 masks again.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really \u2063not focused on \u2062masks coming back as a mandate,\u201d she\u200c said. \u201cIf we ever\u2062 felt like we needed to return \u200bto everybody needing to put their mask back on again, I think we would be in bad shape and most people would want\u200b to put their mask on. We have such good\u200c tools right \u2062now that we really \u200dshouldn\u2019t get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Businesses and local governments across the country have started reconsidering mask\u200b mandates as cases begin to rise. Mask mandates nationwide have largely gone away since a court struck down the federal transportation mask\u2064 mandate\u200c in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County last had\u200b a mask\u2064 mandate in place through March 2022 and reportedly flirted with reimplementing the mask\u2062 mandate in \u2062December \u200b2022 but ultimately did not. The state of \u200cCalifornia itself has not had a mask mandate in place since February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Data behind \u2064mask effectiveness in preventing\u2064 the spread of COVID-19 has not\u200d been clear, \u2062with a \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-health-director-not-focused-on-mask-mandates-returning-as-covid-cases-rise\/\" title=\"LA health director unconcerned about reintroducing mask mandates despite increasing COVID cases.\">meta-analysis\u200c study published earlier<\/a> this year showing\u200c that N95 \u200dmasks and other respirators &#8220;probably [made] little\u200d to no\u2064 difference&#8221; in catching or transmitting flu, \u200cCOVID-19,\u2064 or other \u200crespiratory illnesses.<\/p>\n<h3>Discussion of Mask\u200b Mandates Becomes \u200ca \u2063Rallying Cry<\/h3>\n<p>Discussion of the reimplementation of mask mandates has caused\u200b the issue \u200cto become a rallying cry for \u2063Republican politicians who have vowed to stop any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-governor-signs-law-banning-mask-mandates-in-schools-cities-and-counties\/\" title=\"Iowa Governor Signs Law Banning Mask Mandates In Schools, Cities, And Counties\">future mask mandates<\/a> or COVID-19 lockdowns. Gov. Ron DeSantis\u200b (R-FL), widely known for his\u2064 COVID-19 response \u200bin the Sunshine \u200bState, reaffirmed his commitment \u2062to not allowing mask mandates earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK\u200c HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer is not considering reinstating mask mandates despite a rise in COVID-19 cases. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Ferrer stated that she would only consider such measures if the outbreak reached a level she deemed necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2026702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026701","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=2026701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}