Is This the End?
The CDC’s surprising mask announcement was not just a public-health milestone.
by Russell Berman
May 13, 2021
3 minutes
The announcement seemed to catch everyone off guard: Early Thursday afternoon, the government told Americans that if they were fully vaccinated against COVID-19, they did not need to wear a mask—indoors or outside, in groups small or large.
People who have gotten their shots, Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said at a White House press briefing, “can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic.” Coming from an administration that has preached caution —only six weeks ago a teary-eyed Walensky warned the nation
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