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When will we drop the masks?

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(WSIL) -- Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon recommend that vaccinated people can relax mask-wearing indoors.

According to a Poynter article, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, says it is time to start offering a sort of reward for people to get vaccinated, and relaxing indoor mask requirements would be one way to do that.

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New Ipsos polling, taken after the CDC revised its guidelines for when vaccinated people can safely take off their masks, shows vaccinated people are still more likely to wear a mask than those who choose to be unvaccinated.

The share of vaccinated people who reported wearing masks at all times has dropped since mid-April. It’s now 63%, down from 74% in the April 16-19 .

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The least likely generation to wear masks at all times? That’s Generation X (41-56), at 51%. That’s compared to 59% of baby boomers, 57% of millennials, and 65% of Gen Z.

Poynter points out, Dr. Fauci says that even when the pandemic is past us, we may wear masks seasonally from now on. He said, “We’ve had practically a nonexistent flu season this year merely because people were doing the kinds of public health things that were directed predominantly against COVID-19.�

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