CDC no longer recommends universal masking in health facilities

[TheProle]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends universal masking in health care settings, unless the facilities are in areas of high COVID-19 transmission.

The agency quietly issued the updates as part of an overhaul to its infection control guidance for health workers published late Friday afternoon. It marks a major departure from the agency’s previous recommendation for universal masking.

“Updates were made to reflect the high levels of vaccine-and infection-induced immunity and the availability of effective treatments and prevention tools,” the CDC’s new guidance says.

Now, the CDC says facilities in regions without high transmission can “choose not to require” all doctors, patients, and visitors to mask. Transmission is different from the community levels CDC uses to guide non-health care settings.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3661963-cdc-no-longer-recommends-universal-masking-in-health-facilities/

[Iggo]

1. Oh.

[PSPS]

2. Good grief. First Biden, then this. The trump-inspired denial lives on.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Fuck

Ii caught covid at a masks optional docs offive

[SheltieLover]

4. Hru feeling?

[XanaDUer2]

6. Several days at the beach helped

Taste seems ok. Every time Mr X coughes, I'm on high alert

[SheltieLover]

7. Glad you are feeling better!

I'll bet that is terrifying!

[XanaDUer2]

9. He says its post nasal drip nt

[SheltieLover]

14. Did he have this precovid?

[XanaDUer2]

22. Yes

He phlemgy

[SheltieLover]

23. Maybe that's all it is, then.

[XanaDUer2]

24. I'm hyper abt health

I have an irritation in my ear I'm seeing an NP about I'm hoping it's not the Big C

[SheltieLover]

25. I hope all is ok!)

[underpants]

5. That is a big change.

They put this body up on the rack this year. Lots of time in medical facilities. Two surgeries. All is pretty much good.

That was a staple of anywhere I went.

[LuckyCharms]

8. Oh great.

Jesus Christ.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Lol 70 percent of the U.S. population currently lives in areas of high transmission, and another 19

percent live in "substantial" transmission areas.

[Iggo]

17. Thanks for the numbers.

My giggle upthread was for the same reason. I just didn’t have the numbers.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. The CDC doesn't exactly present them easily, that's for sure.

[dweller]

11. And the regions of high transmission of covid 19

are where ? 🤔



✌🏻

[Aristus]

13. My guess is emergency departments and urgent care facilities.

I work in a primary care clinic; don't know yet if there will be a concurrent change in policy.

[Blues Heron]

15. north, south east and west, somewhat

(paraphrasing the ghost of Rummy)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. Pretty much everywhere:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&data-type=Risk

[Aristus]

12. I'll be keeping mine on for a little while longer.

Mrs. Aristus is immunocompromised, so I'm looking out for her.

[bottomofthehill]

16. Sitting in my basement

3rd go with Covid. I am mostly masked, almost always at work but ran into a lowes and target on Friday mask free. Also was at a funeral mass on Thursday, was masked but there were a lot of people.

[dalton99a]

18. Basically they're saying the pandemic is REALLY over.

FINIS.

[Amishman]

21. this was inevitable, i'm surprised it lasted this long

The majority of the public is done with masks. COVID is becoming normalized.

[Iggo]

27. I'm done with people who only wore a mask because someone made them wear a mask.

You know, the sheep.

[Meowmee]

26. Once again, no surprise

This country is crazy. CDC will never be taken seriously again- from the start of this pandemic there were many major negligences, blunders, flat out lies and f ups. It never stops shocking me on some level though to see the callous disregard for human lives and people’s safety.

I will never forget walensky last May giving in to pressure from R senators and saying no masks needed for the vaccinated and then denying it saying it was the “science”. Then she went on tv at some point after this and said only high risk and older people were dying now so it didn't matter because they were going to die anyway.


We are now at high level transmission in my county and people are still required to mask in medical facilities as far as I am aware.

I just had a student try to come to class last week with 101.2 fever after having covid, first telling me he didn’t but was exposed, then it turns out he did have it but had negative tests at that point but still had a fever. Fortunately he did not come to class, I had not received the message until 2 hours in and told him not to come to class with a fever etc. neg tests or not. Since I have no proof that he had negative tests I do not know if he was actually ok to be there the next class. The mask after covid requirement is only 5 days now, it used to be 10 days.

I made an announcement again next class, no one is to come to class with any symptoms or with anything contagious ever. But there are always people who do it anyway. Maybe now they will realize that it is forbidden. I have had this policy in place for years.

I mask everywhere with n95, this protected me in hospitals visiting my father for hours when I knew they were lying and once had a covid patient right next door to him.

Ok new cdc policy throw up hands and say wgaf. Actually it has been like that for quite some time.