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CDC loosens guidelines, healthy Americans can drop mask wearing

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Is it too good to be true? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday announced a change to the metrics it will use to determine whether to recommend face coverings. The new guide would be shifting away from looking at COVID-19 case counts “to a more holistic view of risk from the coronavirus to a community” reports the Associated Press. Currently, masks are recommended for 95 percent of U.S. counties.

The guidance has been based on caseloads, which were designated as areas of “substantial or high transmission” by the CDC. “Most Americans live in places where healthy people, including students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday” reports the AP.

The new set of measures focus less on positive test results and more on what’s happening at hospitals. “The new system greatly changes the look of the CDC’s risk map and puts more than 70% of the U.S. population in counties where the coronavirus is posing a low or medium threat to hospitals. Those are the people who can stop wearing masks,” the agency said.

The CDC still advises people and schoolchildren to wear masks “where the risk of COVID-19 is high” which is about 37% of U.S. counties, where about 28% of Americans live.

What is not included in the change are requirements to wear masks on public transportation and indoors in airports, train stations and bus stations. Additionally, “the CDC guidelines for other indoor spaces aren’t binding, meaning cities and institutions even in areas of low risk may set their own rules.”

The agency also says that anyone experiencing symptoms and/or who test positive should not stop wearing masks. “Anybody is certainly welcome to wear a mask at any time if they feel safer wearing a mask,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a news briefing. “We want to make sure our hospitals are OK and people are not coming in with severe disease. … Anyone can go to the CDC website, find out the volume of disease in their community and make that decision.”

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  1. Grant Fisk

    February 26, 2022 at 1:16 pm

    Only temporarily. The Mandates will be reimposed after the SOTU! This pause is only to allow the Members of Congress that are ALLOWED to attend the Speech to do so maskless without repercussions!

  2. Yvette

    February 26, 2022 at 5:27 pm

    Next —- We NEED to get the masks off in airports and airplanes. This is torture for any flight over four hours!!!

  3. Joshua Vandever

    February 26, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    Screw the CDC and their guidelines. Bunch of crooks and a den of vipers. This is America and I won’t be held hostage or treated like a slave, and neither should anyone else. CDC can stuff those masks and mandates where the sun don’t shine. Choke on it.
    CDC history is bleak and so is the present. Remember Tuskegee.

  4. IMJustice

    February 27, 2022 at 5:19 am

    It’s all a lie and smokescreen by the CDC …

    Tell me, what are they going to do, when the vaccinated and boostered start filling up institutions everywhere? And this is already snowballing globally …

    Yep … Here comes the mandates again … And that’s because, in this end-of-times war, they will NEVER want vaccines, boosters, or wearing slave masks to end … Never …

  5. David Emery

    February 27, 2022 at 5:53 pm

    Follow the science, the real science not the crap put out by the WHO and the CDC. Here are a few real scientific facts.

    The sars covid-19 virus has a diameter of 0.1 microns. For the scientifically minded that’s 3.937e-6. For those who never took physics that is one twenty five thousands of an inch.

    Cloth masks have holes for air to come through that are between five hundred and two thousand times the diameter of the virus. The scale of this is the equivalent of a tiny gnat or mosquito flying through an average size open window in your house.

    The virus is airborne, it makes no difference if a mask can stop sputum or droplets when an infected person coughs as enough airborne viruses will always get through to infect others.

    Even the highly touted N95 masks are useless. They can only trap particles as small as 3 microns which is 30 times smaller than the covid virus. No face mask in the world can stop a virus.

    Distancing is utterly useless. Airborne viruses can float for hundreds of yards, six feet between people is a complete joke.

    Finally, none of the companies who produce the messenger nucleic acid (mRNA) so-called vaccines have ever claimed that their products will

    1, stop anyone from catching the virus and 2, that their products would stop those infected from spreading the virus to others.

    Their sole claim is that people who have been injected with their experimental formulations will not become quite as ill if they are infected.

    Before attacking me, please do your own research and for heaven’s sake not on Google if you want to find the truth. There is massive misinformation on the internet, especially from Google, Facebook and Twitter. You have been purposely lied to. This has all been part of the WEF’s Great Reset plan.

  6. Jake Dubay

    February 27, 2022 at 6:49 pm

    Except in Hawaii and on planes.

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Former Harvard medical professor says he was fired for opposing Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates

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“My hope is that someday, Harvard will find its way back to academic freedom and independence.” That is the heartfelt message from Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a former Harvard University professor of medicine since 2003, who recently announced publicly he was fired for “clinging to the truth” in his opposition to Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

Kulldorff posted the news on social media alongside an essay published in the City Journal last week. The epidemiologist and biostatistician also spoke with National Review about the incident. Kulldorff says he was fired by the Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham hospital system and put on a leave of absence by Harvard Medical School in November 2021 over his stance on Covid.

Nearly two years later, in October 2023, his leave of absence was terminated as a matter of policy, marking the end of his time at the university. Harvard severed ties with Kulldorff “all on their initiative,” he said.

The history of the medical professional’s public stance on Covid-19 vaccines and mandates is detailed by National Review:

Censorship and rejection led Kulldorff to co-author the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020 alongside Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University. Together, the three public-health scientists argued for limited and targeted Covid-19 restrictions that “protect the elderly, while letting children and young adults live close to normal lives,” as Kulldorff put it in his essay.

“The declaration made clear that no scientific consensus existed for school closures and many other lockdown measures. In response, though, the attacks intensified—and even grew slanderous,” he wrote, naming former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins as the one who ordered a “devastating published takedown” of the declaration.

Testifying before Congress in January, Collins reaffirmed his previous statements attacking the Great Barrington Declaration.

Despite the coordinated effort against it, the document has over 939,000 signatures in favor of age-based focused protection.

The Great Barrington Declaration’s authors, who advocated the quick reopening of schools, have been vindicated by recent studies that confirm pandemic-era school closures were, in fact, detrimental to student learning. The data show that students from third through eighth grade who spent most of the 2020–21 school year in remote learning fell more than half a grade behind in math scores on average, while those who attended school in person dropped a little over a third of a grade, according to a New York Times review of existing studies. In addition to learning losses, school closures did very little to stop the spread of Covid, studies show.

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