A Third of US Should Be Considering Masks, Federal Officials Say -Covid Cases Increasing In US: AP

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- COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. (May 18)
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- AP News, May 18, 2022. Ed.

WASHINGTON- COVID-19 cases are increasing in the US- & could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections & hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention that call for masking & other infection precautions.

Right now, about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk — mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. Those are areas where people should already be considering wearing masks indoors — but Americans elsewhere should also take notice, officials said.

“Prior increases of infections, in different waves of infection, have demonstrated that this travels across the country,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said at a White House briefing with reporters. For an increasing number of areas, “we urge local leaders to encourage use of prevention strategies like masks in public indoor settings and increasing access to testing and treatment,” she said.

However, officials were cautious about making concrete predictions, saying how much worse the pandemic gets will depend on several factors, including to what degree previous infections will protect against new variants. ~

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. I am still wearing my mask most places

[appalachiablue]

2. Same, I have no problem with it.

[niyad]

3. Have not stopped wearing mine, do not plan on doing so any time soon.

[Bayard]

4. I rarely see anyone else wearing one these days

I still don't leave home without it.

[blue sky at night]

5. Look...

We will be wearing them from now on; look at folks in Aisa…they have been wearing them for as long as I can remember.

[pstokely]

6. without at hospitals capacity, mask mandates might be seen as wolf crying

at least to anti masker gun tRump humping gun hoarders, and many wage slaves don't won't to get into more arguments anti maskers

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Just got my second booster. I will continue to double mask until further notice.

Heck, I have been paper medical taping the first N95 mask down around the edges and cover the whole shebang with a double layer, prettier fabric mask. So far I haven't started hating people, yet.

[twodogsbarking]

8. I wear a mask in stores. It ain't over folks.