LA County could lift indoor mask mandates by Friday, Public Health chief says
Los Angeles County will likely head into “low risk” territory under new federal COVID criteria, the county’s Public Health chief said on Tuesday, March 1. The threshold appears to mean, according to Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, that the county would no longer require people to wear masks at indoor businesses as soon as Friday.
The shift would align the county with the state’s action that took effect on Tuesday, March 1. The county is one of the final holdouts in California not to align with the state on the masking rules. But on Friday, the CDC announced new standards that rely largely on COVID hospital numbers to govern whether masks should be worn. Those new standards — while resulting in mask recommendations being lifted for much of the country, still classified Los Angeles as having “high” virus activity and urged that people continue to wear masks.
The county’s hospitalizations linked to COVID have been plummeting for weeks — though they ticket upward a bit on Tuesday, according to the state database, from 916 to 927, the first increase since mid-January. The number of people in intensive care dropped by eight, however.
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