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Philadelphia May Issue Indoor Mask Mandate Again If COVID Cases Continue To Rise; Announcement Expected Monday
CBS Philly ^ | 4/7/2022 | Stephanie Stahl

Posted on 04/10/2022 11:46:24 AM PDT by Signalman

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia appears to be headed back to indoor mask mandates. If COVID cases continue to increase, the city health department is expected to make the announcement Monday.

COVID is making a comeback in Philadelphia. While the overall numbers are still relatively low, they’re increasing.

“I think we all have to stay alert, we do not know what is happening next,” Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole said.

Under the city’s COVID response plan, Philadelphia could be moving from the all clear to a level 2 soon.

Masks will be required inside again if 2 of these 3 measures are met

the average new daily cases are less than 225 hospitalizations are less than 100 and cases are up more than 50% over 10 days

As of Thursday, there are 127 new daily cases, 53 hospitalized, and cases are up 95% over the past 10 days. The health department says it will decide Monday after reviewing hospital numbers.

“My commitment to Philadelphians is to not institute rules lightly,” Bettigole said.

The department may announce the return of the mask mandate Monday but delay implementing it for a few days, city spokesperson James Garrow said, to give businesses time to adapt.

If brought back, the mask mandate would apply to schools in the city as well.


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KEYWORDS: maskmandate; philadelphia
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1 posted on 04/10/2022 11:46:24 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Open the gd windows...use fans...and assume there are filters on any HVAC


2 posted on 04/10/2022 11:48:12 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Signalman

Just send the free tests to the locales in the country where you want the lockdowns and mask-ups. Then wait 3 weeks and viola you have you -—demic.


3 posted on 04/10/2022 11:48:13 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: Signalman

>give businesses time to adapt

By going out of business.


4 posted on 04/10/2022 11:49:46 AM PDT by libertasbella
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To: Signalman

Good for them, they get what they voted for!


5 posted on 04/10/2022 11:50:13 AM PDT by Bigbrown
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To: Signalman

Yes, embrace the Dark Side once again. Good. Good. Pain, suffering, and despondency is so well deserved by those who are stupid enough to vote for DemocRATs.


6 posted on 04/10/2022 11:50:18 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Signalman

Using a mask that cones from a box that says NOT FOR USE IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS to prevent the person-to-person transmission of an airborne respiratory virus is like using chicken wire to keep out mosquitos.

Note to folks in Philly: Use yer noggins. These aren’t masks. They’re muzzles.

Don’t get fooled again.


7 posted on 04/10/2022 11:51:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Signalman

The mask Nazis just won’t give it up.


8 posted on 04/10/2022 11:52:02 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

I’ll be in Philadelphia for work tomorrow. I won’t be complying.


9 posted on 04/10/2022 11:53:22 AM PDT by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: Signalman

It will NEVER end. They are tyrants and they will never relent until the people throw them out of power.


10 posted on 04/10/2022 11:54:35 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Signalman

Communists NEVER relinquish even the smallest type of control over their serfs...
Unless it is to replace it with something far more extreme...


11 posted on 04/10/2022 11:57:55 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Signalman

‘The National Institutes of Health said symptoms of the flu and COVID-19 may present the same but are caused by different viruses.

‘“Distinguishing COVID from flu can be difficult because the symptoms overlap so much,”’

https://www.woodtv.com/news/kent-county/doctors-see-increase-in-prolonged-cold-flu-symptoms/


12 posted on 04/10/2022 12:05:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Signalman

Bastard commies!


13 posted on 04/10/2022 12:07:45 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: Da Coyote

14 posted on 04/10/2022 12:11:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: George from New England; bitt; Red Badger; DarthVader; fieldmarshaldj; Jane Long; rodguy911; ...

You mean the test kits that have cancer-causing chemicals in them? They can shove their kits and their mandates up their Marxist rectums.


15 posted on 04/10/2022 12:14:44 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Cases.aspx

From the horse’s mouth. Scroll down and look for the teeny weeny print that tells discerning readers that PA counts probables as new cases...


16 posted on 04/10/2022 12:18:18 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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More here....

https://data.pa.gov/Covid-19/COVID-19-Aggregate-Cases-Current-Daily-County-Heal/j72v-r42c

“Counts include both confirmed and probable cases as defined by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). At present, a person is counted as a case only once....”

At present...?

Okaaaay.....


17 posted on 04/10/2022 12:20:29 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: mewzilla

Continuing proof, as if it were needed, the stats are CRAP.


18 posted on 04/10/2022 12:22:40 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Signalman

So Philadelphia has learned nothing.


19 posted on 04/10/2022 12:25:38 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Signalman

Shanghai-on-the-Delaware.


20 posted on 04/10/2022 1:07:23 PM PDT by Tallguy
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