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>> laura: its february 2023 and vaccine mandates, mask mandates are both still things that happen on college campuses! in fact, the university of michigan just announced if you live on campus, you better get your booster or get out. george washington university has the same requirement, and up until next week, its still making students and faculty wear masks. this is crazy! how can any of this still be in place? now, weve seen research, of course, from cochran which is considered to be the gold ...

The u.s. centers for disease control saying this week that theyre easing up on many covid- 19 restrictions. its really a sign omicron is much more mild than previous variants, so not as many precautions are necessary. also most of the country, the vast majority of the country, has some immunity to covid-19 through previous infection or through vaccine or for some people both. lets take a look at what the cdc is doing. the cdc is saying no more six feet social distancing recommendations, all thos...

Little stickers can be scraped off the floor. also, they say no more screening in most circumstances. the screening, for example, that school children have been doing. also, no more quarantining after you have been exposed to someone with covid-19. theyve been telling people to quarantine, eased up on that a bit. but this says no more quarantining. but there are some measures that the cdc is keeping. theyre still recommending indoor mask usage for most of the united states. also, theyre telling ...

The katy perry show. there are, they were not asking or requiring proof of vaccination, nor did you have to give them a negative covid test for the katy perry show at resorts world, they were just enforcing mask usage and not even enforcing it that much but adele was demanding that you take a covid test and provide a negative result within 48 hours of the show and show proof of vaccination. so i thought because 0micron was spiking so hard that she would delay it but what was troubling to me is t...

The white house and the cdc to update their guidance on mask usage. cnns jacqueline howard is joining us now with some new cnn reporting. so where do we stand here? >> reporter: brianna, what were really seeing here are states outpacing the federal government and making plans to lift mask mandates and roll back some other mitigation measures. we should have a list of states that have moved forward with setting a date on when some school mask mandates will be lifted. new jersey, connecticut, dela...

>> you know, we just ran some data a couple of weeks ago at a meeting. i was on a zoom call meeting with my hospital, which is a pretty big hospital system. we went through pretty much each demographic and age group. 98.8% of people in my hospital that are in icus that are dying are unvaccinated. we still have a number of people that are there, elderly with diabetes, hypertension, obesity that may not be boosted, but the majority of people that are severely sick are people that are unvaccinated....

On Feb. 17, at a press briefing, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ceremoniously removed her mask and declared the indoor mask mandate to be lifted.

The county-wide mask rate is 69%, an improvement since the survey in August, 2021 but still lower than any time since June 2020.