Press-Citizen Editorial Board View Comments Editor's note: The Iowa City Press-Citizen Editorial Board is a volunteer group of readers who meet weekly. Typically, the Editorial Board picks a topic to debate, discusses it, comes to a consensus and then shares that consensus on these pages. But each individual member has their own causes and concerns as well, many of which diverge. We share these individual opinions in this feature, called Hip Shots. If you are fully vaccinated, it’s OK to remove the mask Iowa City and Coralville are ending their mask mandates following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said that fully vaccinated adults no longer need them in most situations. We led the state in recognizing that mask mandates were key to fighting this pandemic early on. Now, the vaccines have proven so successful that the risks from COVID-19 have significantly decreased, such that the mandates — and for many of us, the masks — are no longer needed.