CDC Director And Teacher Union President Do Not Support Ending Masks Mandates For Children

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten both said Tuesday they do not support ending mask mandates for school children, amid a growing trend by states to end masking in schools. Weingarten said she would support the end of masks if there is no transmission in schools. “So, the real question becomes, how do we make sure that people can plan for it and what are the measures so that everybody knows, so it doesn’t feel like it’s based upon politics, it feels like it’s based upon making sure that there’s no transmission in school,” Weingarten said on MSNBC Feb. 8. “I asked Dr. [Miguel] Cardona and Dr. Walensky to start planning for an off-ramp [to masking kids] in November pre-Omicron. But then you had the Omicron surge and the masks were back on and then the …  » Read full article