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CDC tightened masking guidelines after threats from teachers union, emails show
Fox News ^ | Fox News | By Joe Schoffstall

Posted on 09/08/2021 10:41:32 AM PDT by Hojczyk

The Biden administration tightened its masking guidance after a prominent teachers union threatened White House officials with publicly releasing harsh criticism, internal emails show.

The National Education Association sent a draft statement to White House officials that included harsh criticism of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's masking guidance, the emails show. But the teachers union ultimately published a version with a much softer tone, and the CDC clarified its guidance to indicate that everyone should be masked in schools, regardless of vaccination status.

The new emails show further coordination between the White House and teachers unions just months after reports highlighted the extent the unions had influenced the administration's messaging on school reopenings. The watchdog group Americans for Public Trust obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act request and provided them to Fox News.

The CDC announced on May 13 that fully vaccinated Americans could stop wearing masks indoors and outside, which sparked confusion about how this policy would apply to schools.

"This batch of emails came just weeks after we already exposed the teachers unions influenced the CDC on school openings," Americans for Public Trust Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News. "Lo and behold, less than two weeks later, they're at it again, but this time in relation to mask guidance."

The New York Post reported on emails the watchdog group obtained earlier this year showing coordination between the Biden White House and influential teachers unions on school reopenings.

In at least two instances, suggestions offered by the American Federation of Teachers were "adopted nearly verbatim" in the final text of a CDC document on reopening guidance released in February, according to the Post.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: bidenadm; cdc; facemasks; teachersunion

1 posted on 09/08/2021 10:41:32 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Pressure by special interests.


2 posted on 09/08/2021 10:42:51 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders,)
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To: Hojczyk

COLLUSION!! IMPEACH!! PROSECUTE!!

See Russia Russia Russia.


3 posted on 09/08/2021 10:45:12 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Hojczyk

But it’s Science

Uh Huh


4 posted on 09/08/2021 10:45:31 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Hojczyk

the science shows the CDC has lied
from Agent Orange’s coverup to the coverup
of this GENOCIDE by GOF-viruses and their makers’
DNAoperating systems.

the science shows the CDC is not worthy to
enter a bathroom.


5 posted on 09/08/2021 10:52:16 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Hojczyk

It’s just the new science.


6 posted on 09/08/2021 10:58:09 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: Hojczyk
let-em b!tch...


7 posted on 09/08/2021 11:01:14 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Hojczyk
4-27-21 From the CDC in response to a FOIA request:

"CDC is not aware of any randomized controlled trials that show that masks or double masks or cloth face coverings are effective against COVID-19."

https://twitter.com/tlowdon/status/1387049350111449097

8 posted on 09/08/2021 11:01:55 AM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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To: alternatives?

I assume this will be part of Dementia Joe’s “six pronged program.”

I think the teachers union is one of those weird hidden forces actually running the country right now. This is seriously bad news.


9 posted on 09/08/2021 11:05:41 AM PDT by livius (.)
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To: Hojczyk

They aren’t masks.

They’re muzzles.

And state sanctioned child abuse.


10 posted on 09/08/2021 11:07:01 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: G Larry

Someone should ask those teachers to read, if they’re capable, what it says in the backs of those boxes of disposable muzzles: NOT FOR USE IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS.

Now, gee, whyever would that be? 🤔


11 posted on 09/08/2021 11:08:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Hojczyk

The NEA along with the FBI are the biggest terrorist organizations within our borders- despite the media claims of “white supremacy”.


12 posted on 09/08/2021 11:11:34 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: livius

I agree with you. I also think that teachers got kind of used to not having to go to work for over a year, but still getting paid and full benefits.... they are not happy that it is back to the classroom this fall.


13 posted on 09/08/2021 11:42:23 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: NEMDF

But...but...they’re so dedicated. /s/


14 posted on 09/08/2021 12:01:22 PM PDT by livius (.)
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