As new coronavirus cases surge in many areas of the U.S., mask-wearing has suddenly become a hot button political issue—particularly among conservatives by theothersarahh
Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona backtracked on an earlier refusal to make masks required,Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts hasto withhold $100 million in emergency federal relief funds from local governments in the state if they enact mask requirements.
Movie chain AMC faced backlash this week after announcing that masks would not be required when theaters reopen next month: “We did not want to be drawn into a political controversy,” the CEO said in a“There’s very few things that we can do to prevent wider spread and another epidemic heading into the fall,” former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb
on Friday. “And this is one of them. Universal masking is one of the simplest interventions we could take.” Amid a push to briskly reopen the economy from mandatory lockdowns, slightly less than half of states are seeing a surge in cases. Arizona, Florida, and Texas have consistently broken records for new infections and hospitalizations, and Oregon and Utah have paused their reopening efforts as a result of their own statewide surges.
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