The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will announce on Thursday that vaccinated Americans do not need to wear masks indoors in most cases, multiple outlets reported.
The guidance will call on Americans vaccinated for coronavirus to wear masks in crowded indoor settings, such as public transportation, hospitals, and prisons, but could allow vaccinated people to go without masks in schools and offices, a source told the AP. The announcement will also not recommend that vaccinated people wear masks outdoors at all, including in crowds.
The new guidance is expected after more than 58 percent of American adults have received at least one coronavirus vaccine dose.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the U.S. should become more “liberal” in its masking recommendations following the pace of vaccinations.
“The CDC will be, almost in real-time George, updating their recommendations and their guidelines. We do need to start being more liberal as we get more people vaccinated,” Dr. Fauci said on ABC’s This Week.
President Biden appeared to acknowledge that his administration should do more to reward vaccination during a virtual conference with U.S. state governors.
“I would like to say that we have fully vaccinated people; we should start acting like it,” Utah governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, said during the conference. Cox advocated modeling a return to normalcy.
“Good point,” Biden said. “we’re going to be moving on that in the next little bit.”
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