Starting Feb. 16, vaccinated people won't be required to wear a mask indoors in most places in every Bay Area county except Santa Clara County (unless a business still wants you to). What do you think -- do you feel comfortable taking it off?
The highly-infectious omicron variant could hasten the pandemic to end after the surge, according to several experts ABC7 News talked to.
"There are three metrics we are following. I expect hospitalizations will be the second we meet. Then we will look at community transmission. Our goal is 550 cases a day, 7 day moving average and that we hold there for a week before lifting. Our model suggests we may get there sometime in early or mid-March," she said, saying the county now has about 1,900 cases per day.
"We do not have a specific number of when hospitalizations are low and stable. And the reason why is that hospital capacity is a little elastic and there's many many factors to consider." "The indoor mask mandate did not close gyms, did not close restaurants, so all of those activities are perfectly fine. And people are able to judge their own risk tolerance. I don't expect this to change that."If you're on the ABC7 News app,"We don't live far away from each other. I find it very...I think it's stupid, to be honest. We live in the same state, we all travel, we all work in different counties. So I feel like it is hypocritical.
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