CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen Admits Masking Stunted Her Toddler’s Development

Dr. Leana Wen, CNN medical analyst and former president of Planned Parenthood, admitted that masking her son during the COVID-19 pandemic stifled his language development and social life. She wrote in the Washington Post that she won’t be sending her children to school with masks this fall, which is in stark contrast to her previous ardent support of strict pandemic policies. She wrote that both of her children, aged five and two, have been vaccinated. Wen previously said the unvaccinated shouldn’t be able to leave their homes, showed support for vaccine passports, and called for schools to be closed for months at a time. She now says that containment of COVID-19 was not “reachable’ and the virus is here to stay.

CNN medical analyst and former president of Planned Parenthood Dr. Leana Wen admitted Tuesday that masking her son during the COVID-19 pandemic stifled his language development and social life.

Wen wrote that she won’t be sending her kids to school in masks this fall in an op-ed for The Washington Post, despite previously being an ardent supporter of strict pandemic measures to limit the spread of COVID-19. Now, Wen said, the reality of vaccines being available to everyone and the high transmissibility of new viral variants means masking kids isn’t worth the downsides.

“It became clear that the goal I’d hoped for — containment of covid-19 — was not reachable. This coronavirus is here to stay,” Wen wrote of the Omicron variant outbreak. “With this new, indefinite time frame, the benefit-risk calculus of mitigation measures shifted dramatically. I was willing to limit my children’s activities for a year or two but not for their entire childhood.”

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