With new COVID-19 case numbers in the United States have dropping nearly two thirds from just weeks ago, the debate over whether mask mandates are still necessary is picking up steam.
"For those who wish to wear masks, no one is stopping them, and one-way masking works,” he says. “There will never be a time when there is not some level of COVID-19 circulation."time and that dropping the mandates would be reckless."I get it, that people are done with mask mandates. I do not have control of making a decision about when that will end. What I do know is I just spent the weekend in the ICU caring for very sick people, most with COVID and more being admitted.
Rather, she says, reevaluation should be based on metrics, including rates of community spread, proportion of the community that is vaccinated, and hospital capacity in a given region."Hospitalization rates from COVID-19 remain high and our experience over the past 2 months with Omicron demonstrates that it can evade even our vaccine protection,” she says. “While most cases are mild, particularly in children, the effects are still substantial for community members who contract the illness.
"We are far from where we need to be as far as being able to rely on vaccination alone to stop transmission,” she says.
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