Dr. Walensky cites a study The Atlantic said was 'based on very shaky science' to push masks in schools

Greg P. | 2:18 PM on January 11, 2022

Dr. Rochelle Walensky used a “widely criticized” study to push masks on kids in school during today’s Senate hearing:

Biden’s CDC Director cites a widely criticized study on forcing masks on toddlers to justify school mask mandates.

Even the Atlantic called the study “profoundly misleading.” pic.twitter.com/RtX0v2WsUJ

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 11, 2022

She’s talking about this study that The Atlantic absolutely blistered back in December:

"With Biden in the White House, the CDC has promised to 'follow the science' in its COVID policies. Yet the circumstances around the Arizona study seem to show the opposite."https://t.co/iqLOQvzARt

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 11, 2022

Read it for yourself:

The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School
The agency’s director has said, repeatedly, that schools without mask mandates have triple the risk of COVID outbreaks. That claim is based on very shaky science.

David Zweig, the author of The Atlantic piece, quoted health experts who said the study Walensky referenced again today was “so unreliable that it probably should not have been entered into the public discourse”:

EXPERTS: the CDC study on masks was “so unreliable that it probably should not have been entered into the public discourse”

A multi-month investigation into a flawed study, and a public health agency's lack of transparency

My latest, for @TheAtlantic https://t.co/1aK7ROOzIe

— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 16, 2021

“How did research with so many obvious flaws make its way through all the layers of internal technical review? And why was it promoted so aggressively by the agency’s director?”

Thank u ⁦@davidzweig⁩ for your relentless pursuit of the truth 👇 https://t.co/gA0K6Ahtpc

— Lucy McBride, MD (@drlucymcbride) December 16, 2021

Meanwhile, over in the UK, they’re admitting that there’s no statistical benefit to mask usage in school:

BBC: Government study finds schools mandating masks had no statistical benefit; "94% of school leaders and teachers saying [masks] made communication between teachers and pupils more difficult. Some 80% of pupils also said it made communication harder” https://t.co/jn9f0Anb8I

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 11, 2022

And now Walensky wants MORE masking?

No statistical difference in covid cases between schools that mask and schools that did not mask. People who forced the masking in America, for kids as young as 2, have to be held accountable now. https://t.co/DBpTihu6PH

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) January 11, 2022

Over to you, mayors. You can end this nonsense right now: