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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Did you enjoy the probe? The prep work and sitting on the
commode was the most aggravating for me. Make sure you
have some interesting reading material to occupy your mind.
The folks at AP are idiots plain and simple. The pandemic is over. What we have now is the failure to communicate that it’s the flu. Get a regular flu shot and forgeddaboutit!! 😂
For what? Bank robberies?
The mask isn’t the problem.
My truck isn’t big enough to carry enough cash to pay for the gas there and back.
“It was an allowed quota due to Covid/social distancing. They would have sold 100% if allowed.”
Ah.
GFY
Especially in swing states for the upcoming elections...
Yes democrats, please do this, please.
Do every crazy arse Covid related thing you did short of your mail in voting crap, (which we know is coming).
100% have considered it, jackasses.
Most of us are opting out.
They knocked me completely out. I went to sleep and woke up the usual groggy after it was over. I didn’t even have to count backwards from 100 to go to sleep!
Nah, ALL of you 'officials' should be considering masks;
Because most of you are ugly.
And most of you are crooks.
I guess all that talk about the “Ugly American” turned out to be true.
Take your useless fear muzzles and stick ‘em where the sun don’t shine, you power-tripping “officials.”
The quacks at CDC could just as well have advised people to place one hand on their head and dance in a circle to prevent Fauci/Wuhan virus instead of wearing a worthless mask. The idiot quacks at CDC will never give up their constant fear mongering.
98% of my mask wearing the past year has been because I am airbrushing.
I still see a lot of people locally wearing masks at Walmart & Sams clubs, Target, etc. I guess some never get the word about the ridiculousness of it...but as a nurse who wore N-95 when Covid was beginning and up until this year, I did not feel protected by them as they do not keep viruses out! What’s the point? I bought extra protection of the charcoal patches to wear inside, to give a little extra protection. But they fall out and have to be changed a lot.
Death to the Associated Press for trying this again this year.
If you throw in the lying ass media, I'm all in.
Sure, I will mask, when they can show me one smidgen of proof, or even evidence that masking has saved a single life anywhere.
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