The CDC will recommend that Americans wear masks indoors again, particularly in crowded indoor settings
In May, the CDC said vaccinated Americans no longer needed to wear masks outdoors or indoors in most circumstances.
The mask recommendations come at a time when portions of the South and Midwest are experiencing sharp upticks in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. In Louisiana, Alabama and Missouri, ICUs are overcrowded with patients, many of them between the ages of 30 and 60. More than 95 percent of the patients hospitalized nationwide are unvaccinated, according to state public health officials and the CDC.
The Biden administration has for months rolled out a national vaccine campaign to convince Americans to sign up for the shot. But vaccination rates plateaued earlier this summer, and the administration has had difficulty messaging to Americans in more conservative, rural parts of the country. The administration's reversal comes after officials reviewed new data on transmissibility of the Delta variant showing fully vaccinated people could carry higher levels of Covid-19 than previously thought — and were potentially able to infect others.
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