CDC Peels Off Mask Recommendations for Most U.S. Counties

MedPage Today | By Molly Walker

After much speculation, CDC unveiled its new criteria on Friday [February 25, 2022] for masking throughout communities based on healthcare indicators, where only 30% of the country would currently be recommended to wear a mask.

These metrics are a combination of new hospital admissions, hospital bed utilization for COVID patients, as well as incidence of cases in a community, combined to indicate either a low risk (green), medium risk (yellow), or high risk (orange) of severe disease in a particular county.

By the most current CDC data, this means that only 28.2% of the population lives in a high-risk county, though 37.3% of U.S. counties would be classified as high-risk. About 40% of counties are classified as medium risk (containing 42% of the nation's population), while 23% are classified as low risk (29.5% of the population).

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