Santa Clara health officials announced Thursday that for the first time the county has achieved all three benchmarks needed to finally join the rest of the Bay Area in easing the indoor COVID masking mandate for vaccinated residents.
State health officials also eased the mandate which still remains in place for all school children.
“In Santa Clara County, we committed to metrics last fall and remained committed to those metrics,” she said. “As I said before, the idea is to insure that we have safety in place with high levels of vaccination, which we have, and that we have overall community transmission low enough to support removing this very important layer or at least removing the requirement.”
“Now I want to note, it’s important to know, that across the state masking is still required in certain settings,” she continued. “It’s still required in child care, K-8 , shelters, jails, public transit and other riskier areas.”The three benchmarks Cody put in place were — a high vaccination rate, a decline in the hospitalization rate and dip below an average of 550 new cases a day for week.“I just want to be very clear that the data that we are following looks very encouraging,” she said.
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