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A California workplace safety board on Thursday is scheduled to consider whether to relax mask and physical distancing rules for workers.
The proposal would allow workers in a room to take off masks if everyone in a room is fully vaccinated and do not have COVID-19 symptoms. Masks would still be required if anyone in a room was not fully vaccinated, according to the proposal.
“Vaccinated persons are at lower risk for COVID-19 infection and transmission,” officials wrote. “In mixed groups of vaccinated and unvaccinated people, however, unvaccinated employees would be at risk without the use of face coverings indoors.”
Singh got a text message just before 1 p.m. one day in early December, alerting him that his mother’s COVID-19 test results were available. Singh’s mother