Probably….
I wear mine inside places….
China and Europe have a uptick in another Covid variant…
It will show up sooner or later in America…
People ain’t gonna want to do the mask thing again…
Gonna be a rough one for everyone involved….
“You’ve got to at least be prepared that we may see something similar here with some differences, because there’s always differences,” said Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical officer. “We’ve got to not ignore it. We’ve got to monitor it very carefully.”
In recent days, officials from the White House Covid-19 task force and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have met to game out how the administration will respond if cases begin to rise drastically, according to the officials. The group has discussed the possibility of recommending communities reinstitute mask mandates indoors and how to ensure hospitals across the country are prepared for a potential spike in patients seeking care. Officials have also debated whether and when to recommend a fourth Covid-19 shot.
Pfizer on Tuesday asked the Food and Drug Administration to grant emergency use authorization for a fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose for people 65 and older amid fears of waning immunity.
The heightened concern among administration officials comes as more than $15 billion in Covid-19 funding is stalled in Congress, despite White House officials warning that they could soon run out of money to purchase life-saving drugs or provide free treatments to patients….
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If a Covid-19 wave similar to that currently moving through Europe were to hit the U.S. over the next few months, it is possible that the CDC would again recommend Americans wear masks indoors where community transmission levels are high, Fauci said.
“The transmissibility of this virus is really profound. The question is, how much is going to be a blip in cases? Are the cases going to translate into a significant amount of significant disease that then gets translated into hospitalizations,” Fauci said. “As the CDC said when it came out with new metrics, any change in the patterns must be met with a return to whatever appropriate mitigation is necessary. I think people have forgotten that.”….