CDC’s change in mask guidance for health care facilities fails to protect patients – Chicago Tribune

CDC’s change in mask guidance for health care facilities fails to protect patients – Chicago Tribune

[ad_1] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent change in masking guidance allows health care facilities to end masking in clinical settings. This guidance misses the mark and fails to protect patients. While the guidance does instruct that facilities continue masking where immunocompromised patients may be present, it fails to specify how a facility […]

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The CDC’s insistence on ‘universal masking’ in schools looks less scientific every day

The CDC’s insistence on ‘universal masking’ in schools looks less scientific every day

[ad_1] A recent NPR report quotes a Maryland mother who complains that you risk being tarred as “a psychotic, anti-vaxx right-winger” if you dare to question whether children should be forced to wear face masks in day care and K-12 schools. That attitude is based on the premise that rejecting mask requirements is tantamount to […]

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Opinion | Schools can now safely make masks optional with the CDC’s new guidelines

Opinion | Schools can now safely make masks optional with the CDC’s new guidelines

[ad_1] Children have been nothing short of amazing in their willingness to adopt public health guidelines. Some have embraced mask-wearing and do so happily. Others are less enthusiastic and less compliant as a result. And they have good reasons: Some have sensory issues. Others with more scientific understanding wonder why, now that everyone has the […]

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