Chicago announced on Tuesday that it is reinstating its indoor mask mandate for people regardless of their vaccination status, joining a growing number of cities and states responding similarly to rising COVID-19 cases. When the city surpassed 200 coronavirus cases per day, it merely recommended indoor masking, but it is making that a requirement now that cases have passed 400 per day. With the Delta variant causing cases to go up, now is the time to re-institute a mask mandate to slow the spread and save lives. When cases fall consistently below that number, the city will revert to a mask recommendation. Arwady highlighted that while coronavirus cases are currently rising, they are still well below the first two surges Chicago experienced during the pandemic.

Source: Huffington Post August 18, 2021 01:17 UTC