This is a major shift in the government’s mask protocol in the wake of Delta variant that has potential to spread fast
After weeks of going without masks as government’s decision for those who have taken both the doses anti-Covid-19 vaccine, the US government has said masks are again required in high-risk parts of the country even for those who are vaccinated.
This is a major shift in the government’s mask protocol in the wake of Delta variant that has potential to spread fast and re-infect even those who are vaccinated and have got Covid before.
Rochelle Walensky, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new mask protocol. “In areas with substantial and high transmission, CDC recommends fully vaccinated people wear masks in public indoor settings,” she said.
“In areas with substantial and high transmission, CDC recommends fully vaccinated people wear masks in public indoor settings.”
— Rochelle Walensky, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
She cited reports that suggests high efficacy of vaccines against the virus, but cautioned against the Delta variant that poses high risk of further transmission of the disease.
Just two days before, Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was worried over the handling of the pandemic and sounded, “very frustrated” over the US “going in the wrong direction.”
He expressed the situation critical as a large population in the US was still unvaccinated, and the Delta variant was spreading.
About the use of a mask by the vaccinated he had said, it was “under active consideration” that the vaccinated also put up the masks.