Tue Aug 29, 2023 – 6:42 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A recently released document shows a top disease expert warned the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the COVID outbreak that the group’s promotion of masks stemmed from a flawed interpretation of scientific data.
The document’s contents take on new relevance as some U.S. institutions begin to reimpose COVID-19 mask mandates.
The Functional Government Initiative (FGI) recently obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) a letter sent in November 2021 to the CDC by top epidemiologist Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and six colleagues.
In the letter, Osterholm and his fellow professors and researchers exhorted the CDC and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) board members to correct “serious errors” on the webpage “Masks and Face Coverings for the Public” on the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network hosted by CDC and IDSA.
“We believe the information and recommendations as provided may actually put an individual at increased risk of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 and for them to experience a serious or even life-threatening infection,” Osterholm wrote.
Osterholm and his colleagues “strongly
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