{"id":29121,"date":"2021-02-17T18:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29121"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:07:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T01:07:15","slug":"cdc-director-warns-against-dropping-mask-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/cdc-director-warns-against-dropping-mask-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC director warns against dropping mask mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. slows and the vaccine rollout out quickens, states have started loosening restrictions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Sunday it\u2019s still too early for states to lift mask-wearing mandates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the spread of the virus in the U.S. slows and the vaccine rollout out quickens, states have begun relaxing restrictions. Republican governors in Montana and Iowa lifted statewide mask-wearing requirements this month. North Dakota\u2019s mask mandate expired in January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In New York, Democrat Andrew Cuomo recently permitted indoor dining at 25% capacity and opened up stadiums and arenas at limited capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have 100,000 cases a day. We still have somewhere between 1,500 and 3,500 deaths per day,\u201d Walensky told CBS\u2019s <em>Face the Nation.<\/em> \u201cAnd yet we see some communities relaxing some of their mitigation strategies. We are nowhere out of the woods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is reporting more than 93,000 cases a day on average, down 22% from a week ago, and more than 3,000 deaths daily, up 4% from a week ago, according to Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 480,000 people in the U.S. have died from the virus and more than 27 million have been infected since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. slows  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[3382,20,3942],"class_list":["post-29121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid19","tag-news","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29124,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29121\/revisions\/29124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}