President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 response coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, has voiced his support for a mask mandate to be reinstated in Los Angeles County amid an increase in COVID-19 cases.
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Jha pointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation to wear face coverings in crowded places, regardless of vaccination status or individual risk.
Jha’s comments come as Los Angeles County is looking likely to bring back its indoor mask mandate on July 29 if the county remains in the CDC-designated “high level” of COVID-19 transmission.
“My view on this has been very clear, which is local jurisdictions, cities, counties, states should make decisions about mask mandates because communities are different and their patterns of transmission are different,” Jha stated in the interview….