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Pressure builds for CDC to update indoor-mask requirements for vaccinated people
A growing consensus among public health experts that the U.S. could soon safely end mask mandates has put pressure on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its guidance in the weeks ahead or risk losing credibility with the public. All adult Americans who want to get a vaccine will have had the chance to do so in the next two months, the thinking goes, and they should then be able to make their own risk assessment based on the strong efficacy of the vaccines, which experts believe largely protects fully vaccinated Americans from getting severely ill with the virus and from transmitting it. “What’s happening in the past week or so is that we’re seeing the effect of the vaccine winning this race against the variants, winning the race against the virus, and that’s freeing us up — and forcing us, rightly so — to reevaluate our control strategies that are in place,” said Joe Allen, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
