cdc mask guidelines

If Chicago reaches a “high” COVID alert level from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the city will issue a mask advisory, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Thursday, just ahead of the holiday weekend. NBC 5’s Jen DeSalvo reports.

Is Masking Still Required in Hospitals? Dr. Allison Arwady, the director of the Chicago Department of Public Health, breaks down newest CDC guidance.

Illinois has long been documenting and reporting statewide COVID case and test positivity rates throughout the pandemic, but now the state will be tracking a different set of data.

Despite progress in COVID metrics across most of Illinois and the absence of a face covering requirement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still recommending masks in some Illinois counties.

COVID-19 metrics continue to improve overall in Illinois, according to state health officials, but some counties are still listed as having high community levels of coronavirus, meaning masks are recommended.

COVID-19 metrics continue to improve overall in Illinois, according to state health officials, but some counties are still listed as having high community levels of coronavirus, meaning masks are recommended.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker voiced excitement Monday as Illinois lifted its statewide mask mandate, however not everyone agrees with the move. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

The U.S. has relaxed mask guidance for the majority of Americans, explaining more than 70% of people live in areas where masks can safely be removed indoors.

Most Americans can take a break from wearing masks while indoors, according to new guidance issued Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NBC 5 Chicago reports.

Here’s what we know of the guidance so far.

In a much-awaited change to federal masking recommendations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unveiled new guidance Friday, explaining that it is safe for more than 70% of Americans to unmask indoors. The shift in guidance leans less heavily on COVID-19 cases as a key metric, instead giving more weight to hospitalizations and local hospital capacity. Dr. Rochelle Walensky,…

“When we reduce these measures, we increase our vulnerability of having transmission continue to go high,” says Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist at the Pandemic Prevention Institute. She joined LX News to talk about mask restrictions and what loosening them could mean for the nation.