According to reports, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is about to lift recommendations for mask-wearing. According to the Associated Press, most Americans will no longer be asked to wear masks indoors. The changes are a sign that the U.S. and many other countries want to put the Pandemic-related policies behind them.
According to the AP, the CDC will change its guidelines for recommending masks on Friday. The level of reported covid-19 cases in an area was taken into account by the CDC. According to the AP, the new criteria will emphasize local hospitalizations instead of the amount of transmission in a region. Most Americans will no longer live in areas where masking will be recommended.
Rochelle Walensky, the CDC Director, foretold the changes in recent days. At a White House briefing last week, she mentioned that the CDC was looking at hospital capacity as an important indicator of policy changes. The new guidelines could be announced as early as today, according to the AP.
The downturn in covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths throughout the U.S. in the last few weeks is expected to change. Many states and cities have recently loosened or abandoned local mask mandates. The UK, Norway, and other countries have recently announced their own phasing-out of most covid-related measures like indoor crowd limits or isolation recommendations.
This is not the first time the CDC has tried to wind down its masking advice. During a lull in the Pandemic, the CDC decided not to ask vaccine recipients to wear masks. The Delta variant of the coronaviruses arrived in the U.S. in the early summer and caused a large wave of the pandemic, though this remained concentrated among the unvaccinated and un exposed. The largest case surge and second deadliest peak of the Pandemic in the U.S. were caused by the Delta and Omicron variant.
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