With COVID-19 cases increasing, U.S. health officials say one-third of the U.S. should consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.
Coronavirus infections are on the rise in the United States and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday as they urged the hardest-hit areas to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAbout a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk — mostly in the Northeast and Midwest.
“Prior increases of infections, in different waves of infection, have demonstrated that this travels across the country,”For an increasing number of areas, “we urge local leaders to encourage use of prevention strategies like masks in public indoor settings and increasing access to testing and treatment,” she said.
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