CDC drops mask mandates for 70% of country, including inside schools

CDC leadership should in indicted and jailed. They assisted the fraudulent Biden regime destroy the country and annihilate our individual liberties.

Related: Iceland Ends All Restrictions, Says it Wants “As Many People as Possible” to Catch Covid

Note “will be able to.” Note to media monsters, we were always able to.

BREAKING: Some 70% of Americans will be able to remove their masks indoors, including inside schools, under new guidance to be released by the CDC today, two sources tell @ABC News. https://t.co/Rsz3MyRo53

— ABC News (@ABC) February 25, 2022

CDC to ease masking recommendations for 70% of country, including inside schools

The new metrics would term the majority of the country low-to-medium risk.

By Cheyenne Haslett and Anne Flaherty, ABC News, February 25, 2022:

Some 70% of Americans will be able to remove their masks indoors, including inside schools, under new guidance to be released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday, two sources familiar with the plans told ABC News.

Under the new metrics in the updated guidance, more than half of U.S. counties, which make up 70% of where Americans live, will be in areas of low or medium risk and no longer recommended to wear masks, said two sources briefed on the plans but not authorized to discuss them ahead of the official announcement.

A CDC requirement that people continue to wear masks on public transportation, however, will remain en force for now, according to one official.

The official said the new guidance will consider three factors: new COVID hospitalizations, current beds occupied by COVID patients and hospital capacity, and new COVID cases.

It will mark a shift from focusing on daily spread to looking at the overall burden of COVID, with an emphasis on its most severe impacts.

Taken together, the new CDC metrics will consider an area to be “high, medium or low risk.”

Based on that risk level, which could fluctuate, a community could opt to remove mask recommendations indoors.

Schools will not be treated differently under the new guidance as other indoor spaces, according to two officials.

A CDC requirement that people continue to wear masks on public transportation, however, will remain en force for now, according to one official.

The updated guidance comes after weeks of pressure from governors and state officials who asked for a clear roadmap at the national level.

Though a majority of states went ahead and announced that they will drop mask mandates before the CDC’s guidance was ready, the new information could still aid local leaders and public health officials who are facing vastly different versions of the pandemic even within the same state.

And it will also give states and counties a guide to re-implement guidelines if a new variant pops up, which experts warn is a possibility.

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