Dr. Fauci just said that you will not have to wear a mask when you do it soon
"We have to start being more liberal because we get more vaccinated people."
This is less than two weeks since the disease and prevention control centers (CDC) changed theirTips on masks For those entirely vaccinated compared to unvaccinated persons. And although things are certainly detached in terms of wearing a face covering outside, the CDC says in most public institutions, everyone is fully vaccinated or still does not need a mask at the Interior. During an appearance of May 9 May on ABCThis The week,George Stephanopoulos demandAnthony Fauci, MD, the Chief Councilor of the Covid of the White House, whether or not it? It's time to startRelaxation of interior mask mandates, "And his answer can surprise you. Read it to find out what Fauci said.
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Fauci said he thinks that interior mask mandates will be relaxed soon.
"I think" says Fauci when Stephanopoulos asked the empty point if it's time to start lifting indoor mask mandates.
"You will probably see that while we go and that more people are vaccinated," said Fuci. "The CDC will be, you know, almost in real time, George, to update their recommendations and guidelines."
The key receives more people vaccinated.
At this moment, more than 40% of people over the age of 18 during the United States have beenfully vaccinatedAccording to the CDC, which is far from the fauci of 70% as a goal of the immunity of herds months ago. Nevertheless, he said, "We have to start to be more liberal because we get more people vaccinated."
"As you get more people vaccinated, the number of cases a day will decrease absolutely," he explained. "We are on average about 43,000 a day. We have to get it much lower than that. When this increases, the risk of any inner or outdoor infection decreases considerably."
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Other experts have recently made a strong pressure to loosen the indoor mask mandates.
Scott Gottlieb, MD, former Commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) from 2017 to 2019, said the CNBC on May 6s that the CDC shouldConsider relaxing interior mask guidelines Now that COVID case numbers are low and vaccination rates are high.
"I think we should start lifting these restrictions as aggressively as we put them," said Gottlieb told CNBCShepard Smith. "The only way to gain public credibility is to demonstrate that you are willing to mitigate these provisions when a situation improves. ... We must preserve the credibility of public health managers to re-reserve perhaps Some of these provisions that we enter next winter, if we start reviewing epidemics again. "
In the same way,Skinny, MD, a public health teacher at George Washington University and the former Baltimore Health Commissioner, wrote aWashington Post OP-ED At the end of April, ask the White House to show the Faith in the efficiency of the vaccine by not carrying masks in unobstructed adjustments inside. "The over-correction has a price; at best, it makes public health measures seem high performance rather than science," wrote Wen. "At worst, it calls for the effectiveness of the vaccines in question."
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Currently, the entirely vaccinated people are invited to wear masks wherever all others are vaccinated.
As a growing number of people in the United States have been vaccinated, the CDC has changed its guidelines in April for those who are two weeks to get their last shot. Completely vaccinated people can "Gather inside with entirely vaccinated people Without wearing a mask or staying 6 feet apart "and can also" gather indoors with non-vaccinated people from any age of another household, "the CDC instructions.
However, the agency adds: "You should stillProtect yourself and othersIn many situations by wearing a mask that perfectly suits the sides of your face and does not have gaps. Specifically, the CDC says that people vaccinated should "take this precaution whenever Interior public parameters . "
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