Some in US Not Ready to Give Up Face Masks
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Two women one with a mask, one without walk along Roosevelt Avenue in the Queens borough of New York, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.
More than 120 million Americans are now vaccinated against the new coronavirus. Local officials across the United States are easing social distancing. And many are dropping measures that require people to wear nose and mouth covers, or masks.
However, not everyone in the country is ready to surrender their mask. They have become the most common and
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Like more than 120 million other Americans, Jan Massie is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can pretty much give up wearing a mask under the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But she s still covering her face, even as the temperature rises in her native Alabama, because of benefits she says are too great to give up.
The retired educator didn t catch the illness caused by the new coronavirus, and she also didn t get the flu or her twice-yearly colds while masked during the pandemic. Unlike some, she s not gotten any hostile blowback in public for wearing a mask. So why quit now?
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