The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday defended the latest easing of mask mandates and said her agency is working on new guidance for the school year that will begin in three months in some districts.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, in a series of interviews with Sunday morning news shows, said “evolving science” drove the decision to update the government's guidance to allow those fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to shed their masks in most circumstances. Walensky denied that the decision was politically driven as Americans grow weary of wearing masks.
"Right now, the data, the science shows us that it’s safe for vaccinated people to take off their masks," she said on NBC News' "Meet the Press." "I, as the CDC director, promised the American people I would convey that science to you as we know it.”
Walensky was asked on "Fox News Sunday" whether changes are coming in guidelines for schools, where masks and social distancing remain policy mainstays.
"Our school guidance to complete this school year will not change, and we will be working on school guidance for the fall," she said. "We need to update our school guidance, our child care guidance, our camp guidance our travel guidance. We have a lot of work we need to do."
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