The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported this Friday the new measures for the use of masks in the United States, which will be much more flexible than during the highest points of COVID-19.
Among the measures published by the CDC, the use of masks is recommended to people who live in communities with considerable or high transmission, but in places where people are healthy, including schools, they can be stopped using on a mandatory basis.
According to the new guidelines According to the CDC, more than 70% of Americans live in communities where the use of masks is no longer recommended, as hospitals do not are under some serious threat of COVID infections.
To determine this, the CDC implemented a new system that is color coded, where counties marked in green have low levels of COVID, so that no mask will be used, in yellow, people should consult their doctor about the use of masks, while the counties indicated in red the use of face masks will be mandatory in closed public places and schools.
“With the generalized immunity of the population, the general risk of serious illness is now generally lower”, indicated the director of the CD C, Rochelle Walensky. “This updated approach focuses on targeting our prevention efforts to protect people at high risk of serious illness and prevent hospitals and health care systems from being overwhelmed.”
Thus , the CDC’s new measures on the impact of severe illness in hospitals to require the use of masks, represent an important change from the previous criterion that was based on the number of new COVID cases as the metric used to recommend the use of face masks
In recent weeks there has been a decrease in daily cases in the United States, reporting 75,000 infections per day on average, with a decrease of 91% compared to 15 in January, when a record of 800,15 daily cases.