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Credit: Laura Hayes Fully vaccinated people can privately gather in- or outdoors with family, friends, or acquaintances maskless, even if some in the group are not inoculated, according to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s new D.C. mask order. But in crowded or organized public settings, fully vaccinated people should mask up.  The order is consistent with guidance DC Health released last week on masking. The change comes because the order says businesses and other institutions can request to see someo...

Restaurant workers called the mask order Mayor Bowser issued Friday night dangerous and a disaster. She rescinded it and issued a new order on Saturday.