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CDC reverses course, recommends masks indoors regardless of vaccination status

by The AV Times Staff • July 27, 2021

After weeks of insisting fully vaccinated people could shed face coverings in most situations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed course Tuesday and recommended mask-wearing indoors for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, in areas experiencing “high” or “substantial” COVID-19 transmission.

Los Angeles County is currently listed by the CDC as having “high” transmission rates.

LA County implemented a mask-wearing mandate in indoor public settings for everyone earlier this month, citing spiking cases attributed to spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19. It was not immediately clear if other local counties will impose similar mandates now that the CDC is recommending indoor mask-wearing for all.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced the change Tuesday, saying the Delta variant “behaves uniquely different from past strains of the virus that cause COVID-19.”

She called rapid spread of the COVID variant “worrisome,” and said its behavior “warrants an update to our recommendations.”

Mask-wearing has remained a requirement indoors across California for unvaccinated people. However, enforcement of the requirement was based largely on the honor system, making it uncertain if unvaccinated residents were abiding by the rule.

Filed Under: Health, Home, Los Angeles County

3 comments for "CDC reverses course, recommends masks indoors regardless of vaccination status"

  1. Tim Scott says

    July 28, 2021 at 11:46 am

    1) Department of Agriculture
    2) Department of the Interior
    3) Drug Enforcement Agency

    Three units of the federal government chosen at random.

    Was there some point to this exercise that you were trying to make Danny?

  2. Danny says

    July 28, 2021 at 11:30 am

    Three laziest, most worthless bureaus in the U.S. Federal government:

    1). the EPA –
    2). Department of Commerce –
    3). Center for Disease Control –

    • Dersh says

      July 28, 2021 at 2:42 pm

      The most politicized,
      That’s for sure.

      Don’t forget the alphabet bois.

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