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Staff scientists: Health department used 'misleading and false' claims to justify school mask order

by ERIC DIETRICH Montana Free Press
| October 6, 2021 10:15 AM

HELENA — In an internal letter delivered last month, scientific staff at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services criticized the evidence used by health department Director Adam Meier and Gov. Greg Gianforte to justify an August emergency rule discouraging school mask mandates, saying some claims made by the rule were "misleading and false."...

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