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People in Maine are trying to make sense of the new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indoor mask recommendations echoed by the state during a news briefing Wednesday afternoon.
At the time, the state was emphasizing that the federal health regulator had labelled York and Piscataquis counties as having "substantial" COVID-19 transmission, recommending that people there wear masks in indoor public settings.
However, within 45 minutes of the news conference's start, the data changed, showing Waldo County, which includes Belfast, as the only place where people were advised to mask up indoors.