Children who are not yet vaccinated against Covid-19 will still need to wear masks in the classroom this fall, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to wear masks or practice social distancing indoors or outdoors, in most circumstances.
“First of all, the schools should be open, face-to-face, in-person classes in the fall,” Fauci told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We absolutely have to do that.”
“People who are vaccinated should feel perfectly comfortable in going indoors without a mask,” Fauci told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Friday.
“It’s clear that the COVID-19 vaccines are extremely safe and protective against infection and serious illness,” Carney said in the statement. “Delawareans who are fully vaccinated have significant protection against this virus and can feel comfortable getting back to the things they loved to do before this pandemic. For our neighbors who aren’t vaccinated, the message is clear. The COVID-19 vaccine is the best protection we have against the virus.”
“Businesses across the state and other workplaces are obviously free to set their own policies in respect to masking and we respect their ability to do so,” said Hogan. “There will just no longer be any legal mandate from the state.”
“The federal government does not actually govern over what kind of consent or assent you need for these teenagers,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a virtual event with The Economic Club of Washington, DC, on Thursday.
“As of today, we are shifting from tracking all breakthroughs — inclusive of breakthroughs for people who had mild disease — to instead focusing on tracking breakthroughs involving people who were hospitalized or who died,” a CDC spokesperson told CNN in an email on Friday.
