Surgeon General Jerome Adams said coronavirus mask guidance may be "premature" or "wrong" in the face of potentially dangerous new variants. Adams served as surgeon general under former President Donald Trump, taking a prominent role throughout the early phase of the pandemic. "I’m worried the CDC also made a similarly premature, misinterpreted, yet still harmful call on masking in the face of [rising] delta variant." Walensky said in late June that nearly one in two samples sent for genomic sequencing now come back positive for the delta variant. Despite the threat of the delta variant, vaccinations lag in some regions, particularly in the Midwest.

Source: Fox News July 18, 2021 15:33 UTC