Los Angeles County health officials said an indoor mask mandate could be reinstated if COVID-19 rates climb higher.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, in a Washington Post livestreamed interview, discussed the imoportance of learning how the COVID-19 pandemic started, and what can be done once it is uncovered.Los Angeles
"If both hospitalization indicators, new COVID-19 admissions and the proportion of staffed in-patient beds occupied by COVID patients, surpass the threshold for high, LA County will return to universal indoor masking," she said.
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