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CDC head says COVID-19 mask guidance stands, for now

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Today Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the agency is working on updating and evaluating its mask guidance, but said COVID-19 transmission and hospitalization rates were still high throughout the country, and the recommendation of masking in indoor settings regardless of vaccination status remains in place."We are working on that guidance.

We are working on following the trends for the moment," she said during a White Hour press briefing. "We are encouraged by current trends, but we are not there yet."Massachusetts, NY drop mask mandatesToday, Massachusetts and New York state joined other blue states in the Northeast in announcing they would let mask mandates in indoor settings (New York) and schools (Massachusetts) expire in the coming weeks.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said he would let the state's school mask requirement expire on Feb 28.New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said mandates on both masks and vaccine requirements in businesses would expire tomorrow. "Numbers are coming down, and it is time to adapt," she said.Hochul said for now there will be no changes to New York's mask requirements in schools, and officials in Los Angeles County said yesterday that they also have no immediate plans to drop their school mask mandate, ABC News reports.But according to the current guidance from the CDC, people in more than 3,200 US counties, or 99% of the country, should still be wearing masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status, NBC News reports.

Daily cases, hospitalizations dropThe HHS Protect Public Data Hub shows 99,925 inpatient beds in use for COVID-19 patients, and the 7-day average of COVID-19 hospitalizations is down 30% from its peak in

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