Over the past few weeks, a surge in cases of COVID, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus — known as RSV — has been sickening millions of Americans, overwhelming emergency rooms and even causing a cold medicine shortage. | via NPR
"To protect communities in those circumstances at those high levels, we have recommended and continue to recommend that those communities wear masks," she said.CDC's latest COVID-19 community level map indicates thatof counties in the country were considered to have a high risk of infection. The federal agency recommends that people living in those areas practice indoor masking. Generally, children under the age of 2 are not recommended to wear face coverings.
Nearly every state on the map released Friday included at least one county where the COVID-19 community level is high or medium. Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia are the only U.S. jurisdictions where all of its counties have low community levels.to see what the local risk level is and whether masking is advised where you live.
"The combination of surging flu, RSV and COVID-19 cases is pushing hospitals past their current ICU bed capacity, which never happened during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon," Dr. Dean Sidelinger, the state epidemiologistLos Angeles County's COVID community level was moved to"high" last week. On Thursday, local public health director Dr. Barbara Ferrer
residents to wear masks indoors, adding that a mask mandate may be imposed if COVID cases and hospitalizations continue to rise.New Yorkers to wear face coverings inside stores, public transit, schools, child care facilities, and other public shared spaces, especially when they are crowded.
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