The CDC's new metrics used to determine whether a mask should be used indoors now take into account hospitalizations, local hospitalization capacity, and new COVID-19 cases.
SAN DIEGO — Friday, the Centers for Disease Control announced the new metrics used to determine whether a mask should be used indoors will now take into account hospitalizations, local hospitalization capacity, and new COVID-19 cases.The new map shows the north part of San Diego County at medium risk and the south part at high risk.
"In some ways, what you're seeing is a map of who has the ability to stay home and keep themselves safe and who doesn't," she said."I like that it's simplified. I like that it encourages people to get the vaccine and masks, but I wish there were more structural things being done to protect everybody at once and didn't rely on individual choices," Fielding-Miller said.
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