NIH director admits school mask mandates not
based on science
Thursday, August 19, 2021 by: Arsenio Toledo
Tags: American schools, badhealth, badmedicine, campus insanity, children's health, coronavirus, covid-19, mask mandate, masks, Medical Tyranny, public education, school mask mandates, truth
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(Natural News) The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) admitted on
Tuesday, Aug. 17, that the push to make schoolchildren wear masks to supposedly
protect them against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is not based on
scientific data.
The director,
Dr. Francis Collins, talked about the debate surrounding forcing children to
wear masks while in schools during an interview with conservative radio host
Hugh Hewitt on his program, “The Hugh Hewitt Show.”
Hewitt asked
Collins about the recent federal recommendation that children from kindergarten
up to third grade should wear masks at all times while in school. Collins said
that he believes wearing masks can help prevent COVID-19 outbreaks at schools.
He claims such a situation would force these schools to shut down, and the kids
would have to go back to remote learning.
At the same
time, Collins acknowledged that it is very rare for a child or a teenager to
contract COVID-19, let alone have enough viral load to spread it to others.
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“It is still
pretty rare, but it is not zero, and we now have more than 400 kids that have
died of this,” said Collins. “So, we have to think about that.”
Collins
insisted that if children remain unmasked in school, they will spread COVID-19.
He warned that such an outcome – which he just said was very rare and unlikely
to occur – would also affect their parents and school staff.
Hewitt was
unconvinced, and pressed Collins for data proving that kids from kindergarten
to third grade “are at greater risk of hospitalization or illness of serous
sort from taking their mask off.” Collins answered with:
“I wish we
had that data. But Hugh, I don’t think you’re hearing me. It’s not just about
that.”
Collins then
attempted to backtrack on his admission that the push to mandate masks in
schools is not based on data. He tried to argue that school districts have
already shut down because of COVID-19 cases.
But Hewitt
was not convinced. He argued that those school districts overreacted to their
COVID-19 cases. He believes his assessment of the situation is supported by
Collins’ own admission that there is no data showing that children are
more likely to suffer from severe COVID-19 infections if they did not wear
masks.
“You tell me,
they closed because of the number of positive tests. But was there real harm?”
asked Hewitt. “Because if it’s the flu or a common cold in children, that was a
bad decision and a panicky one.”
Hewitt
continued by saying that he believes public health
officials and institutions have fearmongered about COVID-19 outbreaks among children without any evidence of actual outbreaks.
He continued
by pressing Collins further. He accused the director of the NIH of not having
any data proving that children have a greater risk of being infected with
COVID-19.
Hewitt
pointed out that many young children are vulnerable to developing speech
problems if they are unable to see people’s full faces. He believes this is a
much bigger threat to children than COVID-19.
To these
accusations, all Collins could argue is that the director believes not even
Hewitt has the data to prove his case.
“I don’t
think we have the data on either side of it Hugh,” said Collins. “I think right
now, we’re all trying to do the best we can.”
Data shows children account for less than one percent of all COVID-19
deaths
Data from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show
that, as of Wednesday, Aug. 18, only 430 children have
died due to COVID-19 out of
614,530 total deaths. Of these deaths, 134 were between the ages of 0 to four
and 296 were between the ages of 5 and 18.
This
represents 0.069 percent of all deaths attributed to COVID-19 and recognized by
the CDC.
Furthermore,
additional child mortality data from the American Academy of Pediatrics shows
that, among 43 states, New York City, Puerto Rico and Guam, children
represented at most 0.25 percent of all COVID-19 deaths. Seven reporting states said no children
within their jurisdictions have ever died due to COVID-19.
Even going
beyond mortality rates, hospitalization rates also show that children make up a
very small chunk of hospitalized COVID-19 cases.
Among 23
states and New York City, children made up between 1.6 to 3.5 percent of total
cumulated hospitalizations. Furthermore, in these 23 states and New York City,
hospitalized child COVID-19 cases only accounted for 0.2 to 1.9 percent of all
coronavirus cases.
The data
clearly shows that children are not in danger of contracting COVID-19, and if
they do, they will most likely come out of it with little trouble.
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