{"id":445420,"date":"2021-04-23T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=445420"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:06:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:06:26","slug":"mike-lee-leads-fight-asking-cdc-why-children-forced-to-wear-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-lee-leads-fight-asking-cdc-why-children-forced-to-wear-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Lee Leads Fight Asking CDC Why Children Forced To Wear Masks"},"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%2Fmike-lee-leads-fight-asking-cdc-why-children-forced-to-wear-masks%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=445420&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\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3426-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO)\u00a0fired off a letter, supported by roughly 30 other GOP legislators, to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director\u00a0of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), asking how the CDC determined its guidance for children two years and older regarding wearing masks.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=3E0419A7-822C-48A3-92C0-6E104AAA65A5\">letter began<\/a>, \u201cWe write to request that you provide us with information on how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came to its conclusion that children two years and older should wear face masks to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The CDC first put this recommendation forward in March 2020 and since then, many states and localities have based their mask mandate age requirements on it. Additionally, President Biden\u2019s January 21, 2021 Executive Order required that all airports, commercial aircrafts, trains, intercity bus services, and other forms of public transportation comply with the CDC\u2019s guidelines on mask wearing and the CDC subsequently put forward a corresponding mandate that only exempted children under the age of two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe implementation of these recommendations has had serious consequences for some Americans,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cMultiple parents of young children have been removed from flights, and in some instances, permanently banned, from future travel on the airline they were flying due to their toddler\u2019s refusal to wear a mask. These unfortunate events have occurred despite the parents\u2019 best attempts to have their child cooperate with the mask requirement, which is a struggle millions of parents have faced this past year. For parents of children with disabilities, compliance has proved almost impossible, resulting in increased social isolation and negative mental health consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CDC\u2019s mandate that children as young as 2-years-old must wear facemasks is among the most stringent face mask age requirements in the world,\u201d the letter noted, adding, \u201cThe significantly lower age requirement for mask wearing in the United States raises questions about the susceptibility of young children to COVID-19, the rate at which they transmit the disease, and their developmental ability to comply with mask requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The GOP legislators made the case for allowing children to go maskless:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p><em>Within the United States, children younger than age five account for approximately six percent of the population but only two percent of total coronavirus cases. Further, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, \u201cSeveral studies have found that children transmit the virus, but perhaps not as often as adults, especially in younger age groups.\u201d National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci made a similar assessment in November 2020, stating, \u201cIf you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not really very big at all, not like one would have suspected.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One review of scientific literature on COVID-19 infections showed \u201cevidence for significantly lower susceptibility to infection for children aged under 10 years compared to adults given the same exposure.\u201d Another review that focused on contact-tracing studies and population-screening studies found \u201cpreliminary evidence that children and young people have lower susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, with a 56% lower odds of being an infected contact.\u201d A different analysis of 32 studies indicated that \u201cchildren and adolescents younger than 20 years had 44% lower odds of secondary infection with SARS-CoV-2 compared with adults 20 years and older; this finding was most marked in those younger than 10 to 14 years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter concluded with some pointed questions for the CDC:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Why did the CDC set the minimum age requirement for COVID-19 mask guidelines at two-years-old?<br \/>\u2022 What specific scientific studies did the CDC base its recommendations on?<br \/>\u2022 What childhood developmental milestones did the CDC take into consideration when setting the minimum age requirement at two-years-old?<br \/>\u2022 What steps is the CDC taking to track the latest scientific studies on the contraction and transmission of COVID-19 among children and the effectiveness of masks in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 by children?<br \/>\u2022 What plans does the CDC have in place to update its recommendations on mask wearing as new information is gained from these scientific studies about the contraction and spread of COVID-19 by children, especially young children?<br \/>\u2022 Are you continuing to monitor the science that informs your administration\u2019s guidance on children wearing masks? Are you willing to modify and update your current guidance?<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO)\u00a0fired off a letter, supported by roughly 30 other GOP legislators, to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director\u00a0of the Center for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276545,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3426-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Mike Lee Leads Fight Asking CDC Why Children Forced To Wear Masks","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3426-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Mike Lee Leads Fight Asking CDC Why Children Forced To Wear Masks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445420","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=445420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}