covid response briefing next hour. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, heidi przybyla, from mcclain, virginia, who broke that story. and dr. ebony hilton, a professor of critical care medicine at the university of virginia and also an msnbc medical contributor. heidi, what more can you tell us about the cdc s plans coming up. reporter: yeah, jose, this is just the first part of many considerations that will need to be made as we enter this new phase of covid, which is learning to live with it. the cdc is looking at the criteria that they use to determine when people should mask up. right now, they ve been using levels of transmission, jose. now what they re thinking about is, maybe we should look at hospitalizations or the prevalence of severe disease or access to therapeutics as these benchmarks, since we re going to be living with this for quite some time. the bottom line here is the cdc grappling with these guidance measures that are going to be used by localities now to m
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