Posted on 05/18/2022 1:58:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.
Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions.
Right now, about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk — mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. Those are areas where people should already be considering wearing masks indoors — but Americans elsewhere should also take notice, officials said.
“Prior increases of infections, in different waves of infection, have demonstrated that this travels across the country,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said at a White House briefing with reporters.
For an increasing number of areas, “we urge local leaders to encourage use of prevention strategies like masks in public indoor settings and increasing access to testing and treatment,” she said.
However, officials were cautious about making concrete predictions, saying how much worse the pandemic gets will depend on several factors, including to what degree previous infections will protect against new variants.
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I’m considering them.
I consider them to be an abomination.
OK, I’ll consider a mask.
Done considering. Nope, no mask.
I’d wager my total mask time is under four hours the past two years. Well, maybe add another hour for the mask I had to wear during my colonoscopy a week ago.
No
Imho,a third of the U.S. should consider locating CDC officials and shooting them on sight.
5.56mm
One third should leave the US. ALL problems solved.
“....officials were cautious about making concrete predictions”
Maybe because all the initial predictions by “experts” and “officials” weren’t worth a bag of warm piss?
Remember, remember the 1st Tuesday of November!
Not gonna happen, AP.
You, along with your fetid political party and the CDC, have lost your already miniscule credibility.
Well, half of the U.S. population is above-average looking, half below. A chunk of that below is worse than below average looking. So, I guess a third of all people really should consider wearing a mask.
Hypochondriacs Rejoice. They will feel that their delusions are justified.
Sorry, not playing this game again.
COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months ………
……For the “vax”d.
They’re trying to cover up the cases their $hots will causing, to those with compromised immunity…..just in time for midterms.
I was watching sumo from Japan today and the announcer said "87%" was allowed into the arena.
Like these mask mandates, I kept thinking, where did the 87% number come from? Not 88 or 86 but 87 precisely.
Keep pushing that placebo effect, kkthx?!!
Frakin’ idiots.
No.
L
Oh go to hell. The world is literally on fire and there still pushing this stupid mask crap.
^^they’re
They’re trying to cover up the cases their $hots will causing, to those with compromised immunity…..just in time for midterms.
Yes, that's exactly what they're doing.
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