The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is “looking at” whether people should continue to wear masks outdoors amid the pandemic. “This is a question that we’re looking at,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on the “Today” show when asked about the matter. “One of the things I think that’s really important to understand is, while there’s wonderful news and we’re getting more and more people vaccinated every single day, we still had 57,000 cases of COVID yesterday, we still had 733 deaths. “And so now, we are really trying to scale up vaccination. We have this complex message that we still have hot spots in this country. And we will be looking at the outdoor masking question but it’s also in the context of the fact that we still have people who are dying of COVID.” Show host Samantha Guthrie then asked, “I understand this is really complicated, …
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