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Megan, where is the weirdest place in your house that you've found a mask?

Oh my goodness. Probably inside my sunsock.

I called up Dr. Megan Ranny. She's an ER physician at Brown University because I wanted to ask her,

what I should do now with all of these masks. I feel like I'm surrounded by masks.

Like, they're in the glove compartment. Like, the worst is the masks that are hanging

on the knobs of the kitchen cabinets. Oh, they're everywhere.

In just a few short weeks, much of the United States has upended its relationship with masks.

We've reached a new moment in the fight against COVID-19, where severe cases are down

on a level not seen since July of last year. Just a few days ago, the Center for Disease

Control and Prevention issued a new mask guidelines. Under the new guidelines, most Americans

and most of the country can now go mask free.

Joe Biden laid out the reasoning here at the State of the Union.

Based on projection, more of the country will reach a point across that point across

the next couple of weeks. And thanks to the progress we've made in the past year, COVID-19

no longer need control our lives.

I know some are talking more than 70% of all Americans now live in a place where,

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