US health officials were discussing whether to revise mask guidance for Americans vaccinated against Covid-19, the White House chief medical adviser and NIAID Director Anthony Fauci said on Sunday.
Fauci told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that health officials are considering revising masking guidelines for vaccinated Americans.
Fauci said that the United States is “going in the wrong direction” as cases surge across the country, driven by the more contagious Delta variant.
“If you look at the inflection of the curve of new cases and, as you said in the run-in to this interview, that it is among the unvaccinated. And since we have 50% of the country is not fully vaccinated, that’s a problem,” Fauci said.
Fauci said local decisions saying vaccinated people should wear a mask, such as those occurring in virus hotspots like Los Angeles County in California, are not incompatible with the CDC’s overall recommendation that gives a lot of discretion to local governments.
Fauci added that local officials in places such as Los Angeles County, New Orleans, and Chicago have amended masking guidelines amidst rising cases and called this a “local decision.”
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