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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

DO MASKS PROTECT KIDS FROM COVID?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

As schools begin in person instruction, many districts are mandating masks for all students. What science are they looking at to make these mandates? Jefferey Jaxen and Del take a look at all the science around kids and masks.

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0:00.0

The vaccine narrative is really in some poor shape, according to the data,

0:05.0

according to like we said, how they're doing this.

0:07.0

But the other narrative that's being really battleground zero here at the school boards is the mass,

0:12.6

the mass of children.

0:13.6

And a lot of this frenzy around the Delta is being created by the media for kids.

0:18.4

And the danger of it for kids is being used as cover to try to mask up the kids again as they're going to school.

0:25.2

And this is Dr. Marty McCarrie again.

0:27.4

He wrote an opinion piece in Wall Street Journal and it was titled the case against masks for children.

0:34.2

Very interesting.

0:35.0

And I just pulled the opening paragraph here because I think people need to check this out.

0:38.6

Do mask, he says, reduce COVID transmission in children.

0:41.9

Believe it or not, we could find only a single retrospective study on the question.

0:45.6

And its results were inconclusive.

0:47.4

Yet two weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sternly decreed that 56 million

0:52.2

U.S. children and adolescents vaccinated or not should cover their faces regardless of the prevalence of infection in their community.

0:59.7

Authorities in many places took the cue to impose mandates in schools and elsewhere on the theory that masks can't do any harm.

1:07.8

And I pulled another chart here.

1:10.1

We talk about Israel a lot only because it was one of the first countries to fully vaccinate,

1:16.0

to really celebrate that they fully vaccinated their population, their own way to herd immunity.

1:20.2

And take a look at this chart here when it comes to masks.

1:22.8

There's a lot going on in this chart, but I want to focus on this far right side.

1:26.9

And it says on June 15, mask mandate lifted.

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