“You asked us to stay home,” Rita Heard Days, the council chairwoman, told the director of the county’s public health department before voting to lift the mask mandate. “You asked us to put on masks. You asked us to stay six feet apart,” she said. So something is not working.”The virus has changed, Dr. Faisal Khan, the public health director, told her. to respond with guidance that harked back to a year ago, when many state and local officials were imposing mask mandates.

Source: International New York Times July 28, 2021 21:47 UTC