The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has dramatically eased its COVID-19 guidelines for when people should wear masks indoors, a move that means 72 percent of the US population will reside in communities where indoor face coverings are no longer recommended.The new masking guidelines on Friday shift from a focus on the rate of COVID-19 transmission to local hospitalisations, hospital capacity and infection rates.Under the prior guidelines, 95 percent of US counties were considered to be experiencing high transmission, leaving just 5 percent under the agency’s recommendation for abandoning indoor mask requirements.
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