With the delta variant ripping through the country, health experts suggest most Americans get back to early pandemic basics.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending masks be worn indoors in places withor test positivity rates, which is currently about 80% of all U.S. counties.
for indoor activities at restaurants, gyms and performance spaces, with full enforcement coming in September. While about 55% of the city's population is fully vaccinated, the rate of new vaccinations has leveled off in recent months, and about 72% of tested cases of the coronavirus have been attributed to the delta variant, city health data show.
But that social setting is not the same as attending a large-scale event like a music festival where people are smushed together. The problem, Landon said, is the delta variant is more contagious than earlier forms of COVID-19, and at outings where large groups of people are interacting within a 6-foot radius, the window of time needed to transmit the virus is smaller.inside your 6-foot radius; now you only need to spend a couple of minutes in there" for exposure, she said.
"You probably could have gotten away with not getting masked in a workplace if everyone was vaccinated pre-delta," Hassig said."But delta is different."
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