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Some in US Not Ready to Give Up Face Masks 4 hours ago Two women -- one with a mask, one without -- walk along Roosevelt Avenue in the Queens borough of New York, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:08:11 0:00 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. More than 120 million Americans are now vaccinated against the new coronavirus. Local officials across the United States are easing social distancing. And many are dropping measures that require people to wear nose and mouth covers, or masks. However, not...

Based on the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a growing number of stores, churches and other businesses are welcoming uncovered faces.

  Perspective by Dan O’Donnell When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last week that fully vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks in nearly all situations, one would have expected this to be met with universal celebration. It wasn’t.  A sizeable number of people have seemed hesitant, unwilling even, to take off their masks.  Many of them, reported the Associated Press, are frightened of “breakthrough infections” of COVID-19 that have occurred in fully vaccinated people.  But there are also others, like Raquel Mitchell, who will not get the va...

Like more than 120 million other Americans, Jan Massie is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can pretty much give up wearing a mask under the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But she's still covering her face, even as the temperature rises in her native Alabama, because of benefits she says are too great to give up. The retired educator didn't catch the illness caused by the new coronavirus, and she also didn't get the flu or her twice-yearly colds while masked during the pandemic. Unlike some, she's not gotten any hostile blowback in public for wearing ...

Some aren’t ready to quit wearing masks despite new CDC guidance Jay Reeves View Comments Like more than 120 million other Americans, Jan Massie is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can pretty much give up wearing a mask under the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But she’s still covering her face, even as the temperature rises in her native Alabama, because of benefits she says are too great to give up. The retired educator didn’t catch the illness caused by the new coronavirus, and she also didn’t get the flu or her twice-yearly colds while mas...