{"id":603885,"date":"2021-07-27T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T19:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=603885"},"modified":"2021-07-27T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T19:06:12","slug":"cdc-to-recommend-students-faculty-wear-masks-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-to-recommend-students-faculty-wear-masks-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC To Recommend Students, Faculty Wear Masks This Fall"},"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%2Fcdc-to-recommend-students-faculty-wear-masks-this-fall%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=603885&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 readability=\"31.177358490566\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Guidance urges adults in high-transmission areas to mask up indoors, regardless of vaccination status<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-04-at-5.35.21-PM-736x460-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-04-at-5.35.21-PM-e1612478176500.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-04-at-5.35.21-PM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-04-at-5.35.21-PM-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-04-at-5.35.21-PM-1024x640.png 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tCDC director Rochelle Walensky \/ Twitter screenshot\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\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 July 27, 2021 3:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"54.979847116053\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will recommend that all K-12 students and faculty&nbsp;wear masks upon returning to school in the fall, regardless of their vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The government\u2019s top health officials will announce the mask guidance at a 3 p.m. meeting, a source told CNN on Tuesday. The CDC cites the spread of the Delta variant, a strain of the coronavirus that originated in India, as the reason for their decision, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/07\/27\/cdc-masks-guidance-indoors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Teachers&#8217; unions largely opposed reopening schools for in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year, contradicting scientific evidence that showed it was safe to do so. CDC director Rochelle Walensky caught flack this spring after the <em>New York Post<\/em> uncovered <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/01\/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">communications<\/a> between CDC officials, the White House, and leaders of the American Federation of Teachers. After phone calls with American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, Walensky walked back the CDC\u2019s school reopening plan and included wording in the CDC document that union officials had recommended.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A January CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7004e3.htm?s_cid=mm7004e3_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> found that coronavirus outbreaks in elementary schools have been &#8220;rarely reported.&#8221; A study from the American Academy of Pediatrics <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/new-study-finds-covid-transmission-in-schools-is-extremely-rare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> that transmission in schools is &#8220;extremely rare.&#8221; And while unions rallied to keep schools closed, remote learning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/education\/when-covid-19-closed-schools-black-hispanic-poor-kids-took-n1249352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disproportionately<\/a> harmed black and Hispanic students\u2014widening racial disparities in education.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus Guidance urges adults in high-transmission areas to mask up indoors, regardless of vaccination status  CDC director Rochelle Walensky \/ Twitter screenshot  Alex Nester &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603885","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\/603885","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603885\/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=603885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}