Biden considers it “premature” to relax the use of masks indoors
US President Joe Biden has said it is “premature” to relax the use of masks indoors, after several states ruled by Democrats, such as New York, have announced the end of mandatory masks. “I made a commitment to follow the science and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I think it’s probably premature (eliminate the use of masks), but it’s a difficult decision,” Biden said, in an interview with NBC, advanced this Thursday in excerpts.
Given the decline in covid-19 cases, more and more states in the country are announcing the relaxation of measures such as the use of masks indoors, as California, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Oregon have all done. They are run by Democrats. However, the director of the CDC, Rochell Walensky, recalled on Wednesday that the numbers of hospitalizations and deaths are still high, so at the federal level it is not yet recommended to ease the use of face masks.
The United States is the country most affected by the coronavirus with more than 77 million confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and more than 909,000 deaths, according to numbers from Johns Hopkins University. (Eph)
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