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A third of US should be considering masks, officials say
The Associated Press ^ | May 18, 2022 | By ZEKE MILLER and MIKE STOBBE

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; masks; wuhan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m okay with ugly Democrat women wearing masks.


21 posted on 05/18/2022 2:12:51 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Please stop with this BS.


22 posted on 05/18/2022 2:13:39 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
If the government would only be so polite all the time I don't think we would have much of an issue in this country.

I've considered, thanks for the advice, but no thank you. Have a nice day!

23 posted on 05/18/2022 2:16:30 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

24 posted on 05/18/2022 2:16:40 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just in time for the 2022 elections another Fauci led Covid-19 crisis. Don’t worry about voting. I’m sure the Democrats cut a deal with the Chinese to already print up millions of absentee ballots.


25 posted on 05/18/2022 2:16:46 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( adn)
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To: llevrok

“Like these mask mandates, I kept thinking, where did the 87% number come from? Not 88 or 86 but 87 precisely.”

I guess they took the number of tickets sold and divided it by the number of seats, and got .87 (the 87%). Just guessing, you understand.


26 posted on 05/18/2022 2:18:14 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mmmkay CDC. Why don’t you go give Dr. Fraudci some beagles and fleas to play with in his lab and just leave us normal freedom loving Americans alone! This time put the fleas on Fauci and let the beagles watch!


27 posted on 05/18/2022 2:19:06 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

fidiots!


28 posted on 05/18/2022 2:21:11 PM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m considering giving a “piece of my mind” to anyone who tells me to put on a mask.


29 posted on 05/18/2022 2:21:42 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So now we call cold and flu season “pandemic?”


30 posted on 05/18/2022 2:23:21 PM PDT by GrannyAnn ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
NO.

Not only NO, HELL NO.

You can't control an airborne virus with a mask that has pores TOO LARGE to stop a virus. And NO, they don't mitigate ANY cases. NONE.

31 posted on 05/18/2022 2:23:52 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2022 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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To: M Kehoe

We are getting to that point. We’ll need LOTS of gallows for sure.


32 posted on 05/18/2022 2:24:26 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2022 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A third should be wearing masks?

So, this person is saying that they’re not only fat, but ugly as well?


33 posted on 05/18/2022 2:24:52 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: CheshireTheCat

“Well, half of the U.S. population is above-average looking, half below. A chunk of that below is worse than below average looking.”

...paper bag time.


34 posted on 05/18/2022 2:24:57 PM PDT by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Drop dead


35 posted on 05/18/2022 2:25:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Yup it’s all about the election.


36 posted on 05/18/2022 2:27:58 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Then approve the new vaccines like Novavax


37 posted on 05/18/2022 2:28:50 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: backwoods-engineer

that has pores TOO LARGE to stop a virus.

*******

And aren’t sealed around the perimeter/face contact.


38 posted on 05/18/2022 2:29:03 PM PDT by deport
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To: ought-six

It was an allowed quota due to Covid/social distancing. They would have sold 100% if allowed.


39 posted on 05/18/2022 2:34:20 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Federal Health Officials” is all I need to read to know this is bogus.


40 posted on 05/18/2022 2:34:29 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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