The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday defended the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, stressing that increasing political pressure had nothing to do with the abrupt shift in guidelines.

“I’m delivering the science as the science is delivered to the medical journals. And it evolved,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on FOX News Sunday. “I deliver it as soon as I can when we have that information available.”

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“We have to remain humble. We’ve had way too many curveballs in this pandemic come to us. But I am really cautiously optimistic that we are in a good place right now, that cases continue to come down,” she said.

But, she added, even though the guidance has changed, “there’s no need for everybody to start ripping off their masks.”

“There is no mandate to take it off. What we’re saying is, now this is safe,” she said. “Work at your own speed, work with your own family and your own businesses to remove them when necessary.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4836155&forum_id=2#42472949)

@JustJoshInNow·May 14

The term you’re looking for, for what you know is right and what you want to be right now is... #maskinated. It’s vaccinated + wearing masks wherever it makes sense to further minimize transmission spread + signal to all that we’re not out of this yet.

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4836155&forum_id=2#42473364)

@MarieB08

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May 13

I intend to be #Maskinated - fully vaccinated AND wearing a mask, for as long as necessary. You want my mask gone? Then get the damn vaccine!

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