CDC to recommend masks indoors even for some vaccinated against Covid-19
Federal health officials will recommend Tuesday that even people who’ve had their Covid-19 shots wear masks in indoor settings in some places, a major setback in the progress in the U.S. epidemic that reflects a surging coronavirus variant and the country’s ongoing struggles to increase vaccination rates.
The expected change to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s earlier guidance, reported by several media outlets, comes as the Delta variant — the most transmissible version of the pathogen yet, by far — is igniting outbreaks and driving hospitalizations up in states with low vaccination rates, like Missouri, Arkansas, and Florida. The variant is also responsible for seemingly increasing numbers of breakthrough infections.
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