{"id":605816,"date":"2021-07-29T11:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=605816"},"modified":"2021-07-29T11:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:36:21","slug":"no-one-knows-anything-experts-ask-cdc-to-release-data-on-revised-mask-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-one-knows-anything-experts-ask-cdc-to-release-data-on-revised-mask-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No One Knows Anything\u2019: Experts Ask CDC To Release Data On Revised Mask Mandates"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fno-one-knows-anything-experts-ask-cdc-to-release-data-on-revised-mask-mandates%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=605816&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\/07\/Walensky.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/breakthrough-infections-cdc-data\/2021\/07\/28\/dcaaa6b2-efce-11eb-a452-4da5fe48582d_story.html\">Washington Post reports Thursday<\/a> that \u201coutside scientists\u201d are asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to release the \u201cnew data\u201d cited in their announcement revising mask mandates for areas at high risk of COVID-19 transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Republican legislators and some commentators noted Wednesday that the CDC did not provide an explicit scientific rationale for returning to indoor masking, even though the group\u2019s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, cited \u201cnew data\u201d in her press conference announcing the change.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, though, that political figureheads are not the only ones asking questions.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s report, experts noted to the Washington Post, cites only \u201cCDC COVID-19 Response Team, unpublished data, 2021,\u201d as the agency\u2019s scientific justification for directing even individuals vaccinated against COVID-19 to mask up when indoors if they live in a county with high rates of the disease\u2019s delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>The Post notes that the CDC justified its revised mandate by noting that \u201c[p]eople who have had their shots and become infected with the delta variant of the coronavirus can harbor large amounts of virus just like unvaccinated people. &nbsp;That means they could become spreaders of the disease and should return to wearing masks indoors in certain situations, including when vulnerable people are present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the CDC \u201cdid not publish the new research\u201d and now \u201coutside scientists,\u201d who spoke to the Post are curious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re making a claim that people with delta who are vaccinated and unvaccinated have similar levels of viral load, but nobody knows what that means,\u201d Gregg Gonsalves, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health, told the outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s meaningless unless we see the data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen CDC Director Rochelle Walensky spoke to reporters Tuesday, she cited the \u2018new scientific data\u2019 but provided limited details about how the research was done,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/breakthrough-infections-cdc-data\/2021\/07\/28\/dcaaa6b2-efce-11eb-a452-4da5fe48582d_story.html\">the Post added<\/a>. \u201cShe said the data comes from outbreak investigations in which researchers compared delta infections among vaccinated and unvaccinated people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The data, a \u201cfederal official\u201d told the outlet, will be \u201cpublished immediately,\u201d but it was convincing enough that the CDC&nbsp;\u201csaw the data and thought it was urgent enough to act,\u201d even without publishing the information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions said the new research convinced health officials that it was time to update the agency\u2019s guidance. When scientists compared viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals infected with an earlier variant of the virus \u2014 the alpha variant, which was dominant in the spring \u2014 there were considerable differences in the amount of virus each carried,\u201d the Post added.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether the CDC is relying on peer-reviewed studies or its own collected data, either, leaving experts concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s updated guidance directs individuals to mask up indoors if they are in an area where the delta variant is spreading, but it also directs all individuals in a K-12 institutional setting to mask up, regardless of vaccination status and, it appears, regardless of location \u2014 a change from previous CDC guidance which suggested that each educational institution could make decisions on masking based on local rates of transmission.<\/p>\n<p><i>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 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports Thursday that \u201coutside scientists\u201d are asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to release the \u201cnew data\u201d cited in their announcement revising mask mandates &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-605816","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\/605816","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=605816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605816\/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=605816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}