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.
