CDC Expected to Ease Indoor Masking Recommendations for 70% of the Country

New guidance released today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to recommend that 70% of Americans would be able to remove their masks indoors, including inside schools.

According to ABC News, two officials who previewed the plan before its release said metrics show more than half of U.S. counties, which make up 70% of where Americans live, will be in areas deemed “low” or “medium” risk because of the decline of COVID hospitalizations.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to ABC News confirmed that the CDC would no longer recommend that these communities insist on indoor masking.