As new tools to combat COVID have become accessible, several US states and localities have elected to shift their strategies. It has resulted in the CDC being pressured to end the COVID mask mandate next week as states start lifting the restrictions.
For the millionth time since the commencement of the COVID pandemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is trailing behind.
Upwards of a dozen states, including California (the most populous), have already elected to abolish COVID-inspired masking restrictions throughout most public locations on their own, but the federal agency is only just now ready to acknowledge that they will have accomplished their function and are poised to be decommissioned.
The CDC is expected to eventually eliminate its federal mask rule - or "loosen" its limits on interior masking, as NBC News puts it - as soon as "next week," according to NBC News. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, later verified this during a pr...