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New York Times questions CDC’s continued calls for outdoor masking

Updated: May 11, 2021 at 6:58 pm EST  See Comments

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May 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Even the left-wing New York Times has begun to push back against aspects of COVID-19 orthodoxy promoted by the mainstream media for the past year, this time in a report taking issue with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s (CDC’s) position on outdoor mask-wearing.

While conditioning the resumption of normal outdoor, unmasked activities largely on vaccination, the CDC continues to recommend that Americans wear masks while dining or attending gatherings outdoors, based on the estimate that “less than 10 percent of documented transmission, in many studies, have occurred outdoors.”

But on Tuesday, the Times published an article by David Leonhardt noting that the number “seems to be a huge exaggeration” according to University of St. Andrews virologist Dr. Muge Cevik, and that the actual number is likely anywhere from one percent to less than a 10th of a percent.

In fact, “there is not a single documented Covid infection anywhere in the world from casual outdoor interactions, such as walking past someone on a street or eating at a nearby table,” Leonhardt wrote. Further, much of the data comes from cases at

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