A bicameral group of legislators is questioning why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends children as young as 2 wear masks. The CDC first recommended that children aged 2 years or older wear masks in March 2020, advice that many states based their masking rules on. In January, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that all airports, trains, and many buses follow the CDC’s masking recommendations. “The implementation of these recommendations has had serious consequences for some Americans. Multiple parents of young children have been removed from flights, and in some instances, permanently banned, from future travel on the airline they were flying due to their toddler’s refusal to wear a mask,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and the other lawmakers wrote to the CDC’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky. “These unfortunate events have occurred despite the parents’ best attempts to have their child cooperate with the mask …
Members of Congress Question Why CDC Recommends Masks for Children as Young as 2
April 23, 2021
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