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EXCLUSIVE: America First Legal Demands Answers From CDC on ‘Abhorrent’ Transgender Activism in Schools
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—America First Legal has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, demanding records related to the CDC's "self-assessment tool" urging teachers, administrators, school health staff, and others to advocate LGBT causes in school. "It’s abhorrent that federal tax dollars are going to pay…Tyler O’Neil -
CDC Urges Teachers, Administrators, School Nurses to Adopt LGBT Curriculum, Endorse Transgender Identity
Just days after Christmas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention republished a "self-assessment tool" urging teachers, administrators, school health staff, and others to become an "awesome ally" by advocating for LGBT causes in school. The document cites multiple LGBT activist groups, including a division of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The CDC did…Tyler O’Neil -
CDC Misunderstands Why People Hate It, Attempts to Reorganize Anyway
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is suffering from a legitimacy crisis. With that in mind, the CDC is attempting to recuperate its image and attempting to fix some of the perceived issues that plagued it during the pandemic. In a Wednesday statement, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said, “My goal is a new, public…Douglas Blair -
CDC Struggles to Maintain Public Trust, Leader of House Doctors Caucus Says
Amid new information on its inner workings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is facing a credibility problem for its COVID-19 response, a leader of the House’s GOP Doctors Caucus told The Daily Signal. “The American people don’t do well with being told ‘Because I told you so,’ which has, unfortunately, been the Biden…Fred Lucas -
Teachers Union Bullied White House, CDC Into Changing Guidelines for Masks at Schools
The nation's largest teachers union threatened to publicly criticize President Joe Biden’s administration if it didn't implement stricter mask guidance for schools, according to internal emails obtained by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust and provided to Fox News. Following a statement published by the National Education Association, new guidance from the Centers for Disease…Kendall Tietz -
CDC Should Revise Its Guidance Mandating Masks at School
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends “universal indoor masking of all students age 2 and older.” There’s just one problem: The leading study on which the CDC bases this recommendation found that the COVID-19 infection rate in schools requiring students to wear masks “was not statistically significant compared with schools where mask use…Doug Badger -
De Blasio to Keep Masks in Schools Despite CDC Guidelines
Masks will be required in New York City grade schools this fall, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday at a press briefing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidance Friday that vaccinated students and teachers could go maskless and stressed “the importance of offering in-person learning, regardless of whether all of the prevention strategies…Kendall Tietz -
Power-Hungry Oregon Politicians Ignore CDC Guidance, Stalling Return to Normalcy
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated guidance three weeks ago advising that fully vaccinated people could largely resume normal activities without masking, many saw it as the light at the end of the long tunnel of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the CDC’s May 13 guidance is just that and, thanks to…Jason Dudash -
Collaboration Between CDC and Teachers Union Doesn’t Help Our Kids
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its school reopening guidance in February, teachers unions lauded the new regulations. But one union’s plaudits likely didn’t come as a surprise to government officials, since it helped write at least two of those guidelines. The nonprofit watchdog group Americans for Public Trust, through a Freedom…Jude Schwalbach -
GOP Lawmakers Question CDC Mask Guidance for Kids
Thirty-two Republican members of Congress have written to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asking how the agency came to its conclusion that children 2 years of age and older should wear face masks against the coronavirus when in public and around people who don’t live in their household. The lawmakers,…Steven Hall -
As More Schools Reopen, CDC Now Says Students Can Sit Just 3 Feet Apart
As more schools around the country move toward reopening, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidance Friday, saying that K-12 students may sit 3 feet apart instead of 6 feet—as long as they wear masks. That’s regardless of whether the children are in “areas of low, moderate, or substantial community transmission” of…Steven Hall -
Did the CDC Really Say We Need to Wear 2 Masks? Here’s What You Need to Know About Double-Masking
Throughout the course of this pandemic, there has been widespread confusion, misunderstanding, and anxiety about COVID-19—how it is transmitted, how dangerous it is, and how to protect yourself from it. Now, the latest topic of debate is whether or not the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend double-masking, and like other COVID-19 debates, misconceptions…Kevin Pham -
CDC Tells Americans to ‘Stay at Home and Not Travel’ for Christmas
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discouraged Americans from Christmas travel due to the coronavirus pandemic during a telephone press conference Wednesday. “We did put out a message to postpone and stay at home […] around Thanksgiving and we’re putting out the same message: The best thing for Americans to do in the upcoming…Mary Rose Corkery -
CDC Director Says School ‘One of Safest Places’ for Children, Data Supports In-Person Learning
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said school “is one of the safest places” for children and data supports in-person learning. Redfield stressed the importance of adhering to data during a White House press briefing Thursday. The CDC director also said “data-driven decisions” are what should lead discussions regarding “institutions or what we’re doing for…Mary Rose Corkery -
CDC Now Recommending Face Masks, Trump Says
President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t be wearing a face mask to slow the spread of the new coronavirus even as he announced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now suggesting Americans do so. “I’m feeling good. I don’t know. Somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk, the great…Fred Lucas -
CDC Warns the Opioid Crisis Is ‘Accelerating’ as Deaths Surge 30% Nationally
Opioid overdoses experienced another dramatic spike over the past year across every region of the country, according to a report from federal health officials. Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday show emergency room hospitalizations for opioid overdoses increased by 30 percent between the third quarters of 2016 and 2017 as opioid addiction…Steve Birr -
CDC Director ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Second Ebola Patient in US
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this morning said he is “deeply concerned” about a second person in the United States testing positive for the deadly Ebola virus. The patient, an unidentified health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, was among those who had treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the man visiting the…Kelsey Bolar -
CDC Director: The U.S. Won’t Suffer an Ebola Outbreak
News of a man in Dallas confirmed to have Ebola sounded the alarm in the United States last week. But Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, reassured the American people today that he was “quite confident” the United States wouldn’t suffer an outbreak. Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Frieden said the…Melissa Quinn -
CDC Chief: Ebola a ‘Scary’ Disease, but ‘We Can Stop It’
The deadly Ebola virus is “scary,” but “we can stop it,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said today. The day after an American doctor who contracted the virulent disease while doing missionary work in Liberia was flown into the United States for treatment, the CDC chief talked about the task ahead on CBS’…Josh Siegel