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‘No One Knows Anything’: Experts Ask CDC To Release Data On Revised Mask Mandates

Emily Zanotti
‘No One Knows Anything’: Experts Ask CDC To Release Data On Revised Mask Mandates
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The Washington Post reports Thursday that “outside scientists” are asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to release the “new data” cited in their announcement revising mask mandates for areas at high risk of COVID-19 transmission.

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’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, cited “new data” in her press conference announcing the change.

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