CDC director answers how kids factor into new mask guidance 01:56
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When we launched into our 533-page copy of The Swiss Family Robinson with our then 5- and 7-year-olds at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, my husband and I assumed that the Robinsons, shipwrecked on a remote desert island, would eventually rejoin humanity.
Updated: 1:03 PM EDT May 15, 2021
HAMPTON, Va. Virginia s statewide mask mandate came to an end at midnight, as long as you re fully vaccinated.
For some people, like Billy Holloway, it s good news. You can breathe better! Get to recognize people better, Holloway said. You think they re that person but you can t really tell because they got the mask on.
But others have said they re not so sure they re going to take their masks off, two weeks after their second dose. No ma am, I m still going to wear my mask, Ella Artis said. You know, take precautions to make sure that this stuff has gone away. I don t want to take a chance with my life and other people s life as well.