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BumRushDaShow

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Thu Jun 9, 2022, 04:40 PM Jun 2022

N.Y.C. is lifting a mask mandate for toddlers on Monday.

Source: New York Times

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City will end the mask mandate for 2- to 4-year-old children who attend day care and preschool on Monday, he said Thursday, because the city is past the peak of its latest wave of coronavirus cases. “I have always said that the science will guide us out of the pandemic, and because we have followed the data, which shows that cases are steadily falling, we’ve beaten back the latest Covid-19 surge,” said Mayor Adams in a statement.

The city is still strongly recommending that masks be worn indoors for people of all ages, however, as new, confirmed cases still remain at a high level despite recent declines. The city’s alert level is also still orange, or high, but Mayor Adams has repeatedly said he will remove or implement mandates as he and his advisers see fit, rather than wait for his alert system to trigger actions.The toddler mask mandate has been a subject of great contention in New York City as one of the last mandates the mayor has left in place during the pandemic.

The mayor lifted mask mandates for older school children, along with vaccination verification policies at bars, restaurants and indoor entertainment venues, in early March. He also declined to reinstate a wider indoor mask requirement when the city went to a high alert level in mid-May, even though his alert system recommended it. While some toddler parents supported the mandate, a loud contingent of parents have confronted the mayor on the issue, saying that their children’s intellectual and emotional growth was being stunted because of masks.

The mayor had promised repeatedly to remove the mandate when he felt the time was right. With school set to end in New York City on June 27, that leaves just two weeks of a mask-optional policy for toddlers in schools that are following the school calendar. Advisers to federal regulators are scheduled next week to weigh in on whether to authorize vaccines for children younger than 5, and the shots could be available as soon as the week of June 21.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/nyregion/nyc-masks-toddlers.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes



I didn't know they had any "mandates" left there since the mayor had flamboyantly insisted on not having any.

Next Tuesday (6/14/22) FDA's VRBPAC is supposed to meet, discuss, and probably vote on an EUA for Moderna's vaccines for children - adolescents (6 years - 17 years) and on Wednesday (6/15/22), to do the same for Moderna's vaccine for infants - young children (6 months - 5 years).

At the present time, Pfizer is the only COVID-19 vaccine maker with EUA approval for under 12 (down to 5) and neither have an approved vaccine for the infants/toddlers/younger children.
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