CDC Announces Indoor Masking No Longer Required Just Before Biden’s SOTU
The indoor use of face masks is no longer required, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday, just before President Biden’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday.
Without a change in the science of coronavirus transmission, the CDC lowered the bar and put forth new guidance that places more than half of U.S. counties under low or medium risk of coronavirus, where masking up is no longer suggested. “That accounts for roughly 70 percent of Americans,” NBC News reported.
“We want to give people a break from things like mask wearing when levels are low, and then have the ability to reach for them again should things get worse in the future,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky said about the CDC’s mask-wearing policy that has fluctuated over two years.
“We’re in a stronger place today as a nation with more tools to protect ourselves,” she added about the vaccines that the Trump administration created.. – READ MORE
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