New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says no indoor mask mandate for vaccinated people

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

(CNN)New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio strongly encouraged vaccinated people to wear masks indoors but stopped short of reissuing a mask mandate on Monday in what he said was an attempt to focus primarily on vaccinations.

"Everything we're doing is based on data and science, but it's also based on strategy," de Blasio said. "The overwhelming strategic thrust is vaccination, so we thought the right mix was to heavily focus on vaccination, continue to climb the ladder with more and more vaccine requirements in place, and to give a very clear message to all New Yorkers strongly recommending mask usage regardless of vaccination status. But we thought that was the right balance."

The decision not to reissue an indoor mask mandate comes a week after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidance that fully vaccinated people should wear masks indoors when in areas of "substantial" or "high" Covid-19 transmission. All five boroughs in NYC are in areas of "substantial" or "high" transmission, a metric based on case rates and positivity rates.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/us/nyc-mask-mandate/index.html

[Polybius]

1. Just beat me too it

I disagree with him though.