• Dr. Deborah Birx, who as a Trump administration official helped lead the country’s early response to the COVID-19 pandemic, says masks do not need to be mandated now.
• “We don’t need to mandate,” Birx, who was a White House COVID response coordinator, told Newsmax on Saturday.
• Birx was responding to an increasing number of hospitals and businesses requiring masks amid an increase in COVID-19 hospital admissions across the U.S.
• “We need to actually empower people with the information that they need for themselves and their families because every family is different,” she also said. “And by the way, outside is safe, and playgrounds are safe.”

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