Fauci and CDC catching heat for summer camp mask guidelines

Published May 5, 2021 4:37pm ET



Biden administration officials are under fire for government recommendations that children and staff wear masks at all times at summer camps despite evidence that the risk of transmission outdoors is minimal.

“I wouldn’t call [federal guidelines] excessive … but they certainly are conservative,” Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, said Wednesday on Today. “And I think what you’re going to start to see is, really, in real-time, continually reevaluating that for its practicality.”

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