A Slow Descent Into Maskless
What A Day
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🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Several states announced plans to lift mask mandates this week, but the federal government is taking a more cautious approach, and has communicated that hospitalizations and deaths are still high enough that relaxing guidelines at this point would be premature. Dr. Céline Gounder, a clinical assistant professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at NYU who has been in touch with the White House, joins us to discuss what comes next in this new, slightly less-masked phase of the pandemic.
And in headlines: Top Russian military commanders flew into Belarus for a massive military exercise, families of the victims who died in the Bronx apartment fire last month are suing the building owners, and Russian figure skaters may have their Olympic medals stripped after one of their athletes failed a drug test.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, February 10th. I'm Gideon Resnick. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Priyanka Erbindi and this is what a day where we want to say that the Tinder |
| 0:12.3 | Swindler was always cool to us. |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah, he always had a lot of money around that he was personally offering me and I thought |
| 0:18.1 | that that was a true sign of friendship. |
| 0:20.0 | Agreed, what better way to say that you are my friend than giving me your money. |
| 0:31.3 | On stage show, figure-setters from Russia may have their Olympic medal stripped after |
| 0:34.7 | a failed drug test, plus Nancy Pelosi reverse his course and signals her openness to a stock |
| 0:40.1 | trading ban for members of Congress. |
| 0:42.0 | Big day over here. But first, a number of states, including those with Democratic governors, |
| 0:46.7 | announced plans to lift mass mandates on Wednesday. |
| 0:50.1 | We had a mask or VAX requirement for businesses. It was an emergency temporary measure put |
| 0:56.4 | in place literally two months ago. And at this time, we say that is the right decision |
| 1:02.2 | to lift this mandate for indoor businesses and let counties, cities, and businesses to |
| 1:08.9 | make their own decisions on what they want to do with respect to mask or the vaccination |
| 1:13.6 | requirement given the declining cases, given declining hospitalizations. That is why we |
| 1:19.1 | feel comfortable to lift this in effect tomorrow. |
| 1:23.6 | That was New York Governor Kathy Hokal lifting the mandate for her state. |
| 1:28.2 | Indoor mask mandates will also be lifted in California at the end of next week and in Illinois |
| 1:33.5 | by the end of the month. At this point, none of these states have changed the rules for |
| 1:37.4 | schools yet, but those rules are changing elsewhere. In Massachusetts, Republican governor |
| 1:42.6 | Charlie Baker will lift a school mask mandate at the end of the month. |
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