07/28/2021

CDC Urges Vaccinated People in COVID Hot spots to Resume Indoor-mask Wearing

Health officials also call for all teachers, staffers and students to wear masks

Vaccinated people may be able to spread the coronavirus (COVID-19) and should resume wearing masks under certain circumstances, the nation’s top public health official said Tuesday in a gloomy acknowledgment that the mutated delta variant has reversed the promising trend lines of spring.

Speaking to reporters in an afternoon news briefing, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), expressed disappointment and dismay that the summer surge in cases, driven by the delta variant's startling transmissibility and low vaccination rates in many areas, had forced her agency's hand.

"It is not a welcome piece of news that masking is going to be a part of people's lives who have already been vaccinated," Walensky added. "This new guidance weighs heavily on me."

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