With COVID rates dropping steadily in LA County, Public Health is considering a possible end to mandatory indoor masking.
If the number of COVID-19 cases continues to decline, Los Angeles County will consider dropping its recommendation to wear a mask indoors, as well as its requirement for masking on buses, trains and transit depots, the county’s Department of Public Health reported on Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Barbara Ferrer, director of the L.A. County Public Health Department, told the county Board of Supervisors that the number of COVID cases fell to 127 per week per 100,000 people, as of Sept. 12. If that figure falls below 100 cases per week, Ferrer told the board, the wording in which the county strongly urges people to wear masks in indoor spaces would be rescinded.
The highly cautious Ferrer was optimistic that the county’s low transmission rate for the virus will continue, possibly triggering a loosening of the department’s indoor mask recommendation, and possibly removing the requirement on transit.
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