NIH Director Francis Collins Admits Masking Rules For Kids Are Based On Rare Anecdotes, Not Data

The Federalist ^ | AUGUST 17, 2021 | Jordan Davidson

[Hojczyk]

that masking recommendations are based on anecdotes and not scientific data.

“I wish we had that data. But Hugh, I don’t think you’re hearing me. It’s not just about that,” Collins said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.”

“It is still pretty rare, but it is not zero, and we now have more than 400 kids that have died of this. So we have to think about that,” Collins said. “But also, think about what’s going on in that classroom for two other reasons. Even if kids are not going to get that sick, they can certainly get infected. They don’t transmit quite as vigorously as older people, but they can transmit it. Lots of evidence of that. So if we’re trying to tamp down the spread, here’s one more place to do so.”

“We’ve got to get kids back in the classroom,” Collins continued. “This virtual learning for the last year has been really bad for their development. But if they’re unmasked in the classroom, you know what’s going to happen. There’s going to be an outbreak. That’s already happening in states that don’t require masks. And then what happens? The kids go back home again. That’s a bad outcome.”

Collins claimed the CDC “really hates to have to make recommendations based on anecdotes,” but justified its actions by saying they are “rigorous public health scientists.”

“This is a tough time. Give the guys a little bit of a break there,” Collins said. “They’re trying to manage the worst pandemic in 103 years that is moving so rapidly, and delta has blown everything up that we thought we knew about COVID-19, and we sort of have to start all over again with new data. And we’ve only really had this one for about the last, oh, month and a half.”

[Hojczyk]

These people should be in jail or at lest fired

[chopperk]

Only a loon would do something like that; make a decision based on questionable data.

[RetiredTexasVet]

“.. we now have more than 400 kids that have died of this...”

I say prove it. Let’s see a list of kids, ages, health status, co-morbidity, etc.

[Hojczyk]

01/04/2020
08/07/2021

0-4 years
131

5-18 years
292

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3

They could have had cancer or liver problem or who know what..but they had covid when they died..

Even it was just covid it had been over 18 months

[RetiredTexasVet]

Actually no details other than age and the age groupings are suspect. If diagnosis was based upon PCR tests, without gene sequencing verification, then the diagnosis is suspect.

[TxAg1981]

I say prove it. Let’s see a list of kids, ages, health status, co-morbidity, etc.

I agree!! Also, how many of those "covid deaths" happen to be involved in a car wreck or a drowning? The numbers have been so fraudulently calculated, they mean nothing.

[Flick Lives]

...and delta has blown everything up that we thought we knew about COVID-19, and we sort of have to start all over again with new data.

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Translation. All their assumptions about how this pandemic would progress have proven wrong, but now they’re going to continue to do the same thing that didn’t work the first time

[antidemoncrat]

“Collins claimed the CDC “really hates to have to make recommendations based on anecdotes,” but justified its actions by saying they are “rigorous public health scientists.”

Collins claimed the CDC “really hates to have to make recommendations based on anecdotes,” but justified its actions by saying they are demands made by Teachers’ Unions

There, fixed it

[zeugma]

// Only a loon would do something like that; make a decision based on questionable data.

The decision being made based on the perceived needs of the State to assert control. They don’t need data.

[logi_cal869]

They could have had cancer or liver problem or who know what..but they had covid when they died.

I vigorously dispute the bold statement which you cite as conclusive.

[logi_cal869]

Nailed it.