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Araceli Fitz folds clothes at El Camino Laundromat in Mountain View on April 21, 2020. Photo by Magali Gauthier.
A coalition of Bay Area health officials urged residents across the region Friday to resume wearing a mask indoors regardless of vaccination status following an uptick in COVID-19 cases.
Officials in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties and the city of Berkeley issued the advisory out of an abundance of caution but have yet to issue a new masking mandate for shared indoor spaces like grocery and retail stores.
The health officials also stressed that fully vaccinated residents remain well-protected both from contracting the virus, including the currently observed variants, and from becoming seriously ill or dying.
Bay Area health officers recommend mask-wearing indoors in public, even if vaccinated
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Bay Area health officers urge masking indoors regardless of vaccination, but stop short of new mandate
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We re seeing a significant rise in all sorts of issues; anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicidality, alcohol and drug use and a host of other chronic mental health conditions. The data is clear. Kids must return to school. School must begin full time, in-person, full classrooms, this fall, if not, sooner, San Mateo County Health Officer Dr. Scott Morrow said. We ve chartered slightly different paths over the course of the pandemic, it was enormously difficult. On this we are 100 percent united, said Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody. We have learned more about the science of COVID, how it s spread, and how it impacts our schools and communities and we have pivoted, as necessary. And this is why at this moment and time we feel that schools should be open to all.