WATCH LIVE: Dr. Sara Cody and Santa Clara Co. officials give an update on indoor mask mandate.
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"Hallelujah," resident Darryl Brown told ABC7 News."No really. Seriously. I mean, I live downtown, work downtown, I hang out downtown."Resident Nathapong Shugan said,"If there's a non-mask - oh my gosh! We're going to spike again. And the fact is we can't afford that.
Dr. Karan continued,"The second thing is, it could be that it doesn't go up and it continues to go down despite mitigation measures like masking being lifted. And part of that would be because we've had so much spread, that we don't have very many susceptible hosts left for an outbreak to be sustained."
He commended the county for holding out a bit longer than the rest of the Bay Area and for relying on data. He said that'll be key for whatever comes next. "Masking and other measures should really be seen as, like a light switch that is dialed up and down as opposed to one that's turned on and off," he said."Our trends are very promising and I anticipate that we will meet that metric tomorrow," Dr. Cody told county supervisors."And that we will continue to trend down."
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