The CDC says the delta variant may warrant local mask mandates
Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday that municipalities with low rates of vaccination and increasing coronavirus case numbers should consider imposing mask mandates, warning that the rapidly spreading Delta variant is causing a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.
There has also been a 36% increase in hospitalisations and a 26% increase in deaths “after weeks of decline,” Walensky said, with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, pointing to Delta as the culprit. Fauci said Delta has gained a firm foothold in the U.S., with more than 50% dominance nationwide and over 70% in some areas of the country.
Walensky noted a clear correlation between counties with low vaccination rates and those with a high-risk of community transmission to bolster the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” assertion. Asked whether the U.S. will consider strengthening nationwide coronavirus restrictions, Walensky instead urged local officials in areas with low vaccination and high case rates to “consider whether masking… might be helpful for their community.”Walensky’s comments come as at least one local area is strengthening coronavirus restrictions.
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