People wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 walk in downtown Lisbon, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 8:51 AM PT – Wednesday, February 9, 2022
The CDC doubled down on its mask guidelines as several Democrat-run states eased mask mandates. On Tuesday, the public health agency director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, suggested it’s still too early to pull down the masks despite admitting the pandemic has become an endemic.
Blue states such as California and New Jersey will be easing indoor masking mandates except for students in K-12 schools. Dr. Walensky, however, warned now is not the time for governors to lower their guard and return to normalcy.
“And now might be the time to say, ‘don’t necessarily go to the movies without your mask on or don’t necessarily gather in big parties in this moment,’ and that will be a lot of…
