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The katy perry show. there are, they were not asking or requiring proof of vaccination, nor did you have to give them a negative covid test for the katy perry show at resorts world, they were just enforcing mask usage and not even enforcing it that much but adele was demanding that you take a covid test and provide a negative result within 48 hours of the show and show proof of vaccination. so i thought because 0micron was spiking so hard that she would delay it but what was troubling to me is that it seemed as if covid was a secondary and the main reason the show is not going forward is becau...

The white house and the cdc to update their guidance on mask usage. cnn's jacqueline howard is joining us now with some new cnn reporting. so where do we stand here? >> reporter: brianna, what we're really seeing here are states outpacing the federal government and making plans to lift mask mandates and roll back some other mitigation measures. we should have a list of states that have moved forward with setting a date on when some school mask mandates will be lifted. new jersey, connecticut, delaware, california and oregon as well. and so, brianna, for the latest on this, i did reach out to t...

>> you know, we just ran some data a couple of weeks ago at a meeting. i was on a zoom call meeting with my hospital, which is a pretty big hospital system. we went through pretty much each demographic and age group. 98.8% of people in my hospital that are in icus that are dying are unvaccinated. we still have a number of people that are there, elderly with diabetes, hypertension, obesity that may not be boosted, but the majority of people that are severely sick are people that are unvaccinated. >> speaking of masks, a new study out today in the journal "pediatrics" shows that school districts...

On Feb. 17, at a press briefing, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham ceremoniously removed her mask and declared the indoor mask mandate to be lifted.

The county-wide mask rate is 69%, an improvement since the survey in August, 2021 but still lower than any time since June 2020.