Elected and institutional leaders will now be faced with the complex task of potentially returning to precautions that had been dispensed with weeks ago.
WASHINGTON — Masks are back. Seventy five days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that vaccinated people, the agency reversed course, announcing that the rise of the Delta variant necessitated a return of masking.
Masking has been politicized from the start from the pandemic, a trend that predictably enough continued on Tuesday. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex.,Elected and institutional leaders will now be faced with the complex task of potentially returning to precautions that had been dispensed with weeks ago, as the nationPosters at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas last Friday informed passengers that masks should be worn.
The guidance could serve to reassure educators nervous about coming back into the classroom. Some conservative governors, however, have enacted measures preventing school districts from requiring masks. As of July 23, 48.9 percent of the American population was vaccinated, according to the CDC. That is not nearly high enough to stop community transmission, most epidemiologists believe, but a flurry of incentives and public campaigns have failed to prod vaccine-hesitant Americans to change their minds.
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