Mask Mandates May Be Coming Back In Some Places—And Sticking Around For Air Travel
From www.forbes.com
2022-04-11 15:56:21
Excerpt:
Travelers might have to hold on to their face masks for a while longer. As the daily number of reported Covid-19 cases is moving upward again in the United States, driven by the highly transmissible omicron BA.2 subvariant, there are signs that mask mandates may stick around on the travel landscape.
The percentage of Americans who say they always wear a mask in public has dropped to just 23%, its lowest level since April 2020, according to tracking data from the University of Washington in Seattle. Notably, vaccinated Americans are more than twice as likely (70%) as unvaccinated Americans (32%) to report wearing a mask in public places regularly, per data from the Pew Research Center.
At the same time, testing has also significantly dropped off, so getting a handle on a true number of daily infections has become more difficult for officials. According to…
