Boston Mayor Hints at Keeping Mask, Vaccine Mandates Through Next Winter
Boston mayor Michelle Wu (D.) declined Tuesday to say when she would lift the city’s mask and vaccine mandates and hinted that she may keep the mandates through “next fall, next winter.”
A journalist asked Wu whether she had “any plans to roll back mask mandates or vaccine mandates in the near future,” pointing out that cities are reporting that “we’re a lot better off, we have vaccines, people aren’t getting as sick, the number of hospitalizations are going down.”
“COVID will be around for a while,” Wu responded. “Even after we are through this surge, we know it is likely that next fall, next winter, there likely will be another surge.”
While the mayor said “these protections are not permanent,” she implied they will remain in place during “the most urgent moments,” presumably during surges.- READ MORE
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