CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky announced Thursday that the agency is updating its mask-wearing guidance
The new guidance allows fully vaccinated people to go maskless indoors in almost all settings
Crowded settings like planes, buses and prisons are an exception, and some places like hospitals will still have and enforce their own infection control measures
CDC also says that fully vaccinated people can take off their masks anywhere outdoors - including in crowds
In a seemingly prescient moment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed her mask in public for the first time in months on Thursday during her weekly Capitol Hill press conference
CNN host Alisyn Camerota teared up live on air on Thursday after the CDC revealed that vaccinated people no longer have to wear masks, saying: It feels a little bit like it s over .
COVID-19: Maintaining six-feet distance may not be enough anymore [details]
CDC noted that enclosed spaces with inadequate ventilation or air handling are the most likely setting where a person is more prone to contract coronavirus
Indian strain of COVID spread to 44 countries already: WHO
Ever since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, medical experts all over the world have been advising people to maintain a safe distance of six feet to protect themselves from the viral infection. And now, a new study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has suggested that the deadly virus is capable of spreading more than six feet through the air in certain instances.
White House defended the administration s medical experts as a north star
Jen Psaki went on defense after Republican senators tore into CDD Director Rochelle Walensky during a hearing Tuesday on the pandemic response How we we ve approached things is that we believe that health and medical experts should be our North Star, Psaki said
She said she understood people were tired of masks but rules must be followed
Lawmakers claimed the CDC has provided inconsistent and confusing guidance
They fumed at the agency head for the the failure to relax mask and other guidance despite mass vaccinations and dropping infections