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The general public is no longer required to wear a mask in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Friday, bringing the state in line with federal guidance while still encouraging unvaccinated residents to keep wearing face coverings.
Masks will no longer be required by the state for vaccinated or unvaccinated people, Polis told reporters Friday afternoon. Face coverings will still be required in schools, prisons, hospitals, child care settings and other specific, controlled locations. But even those lingering requirements will end June 1, and districts can choose to allow fully vaccinated students and staff to go without masks, Polis said.
Generally, the governor said, masking is now a recommendation by the state, not a requirement. To that end, he continued to urge unvaccinated Coloradans to wear masks and said he hopes that ending the total order will push more people to become inoculated.
From USA TODAY Network and wire reports
Alabama
Montgomery: With the state’s jobless numbers already nearing pre-pandemic levels and competition on the rise in a changed job market, the search for hospitality workers may not end with Alabama’s participation in federal supplemental unemployment benefits. Some who lost jobs in the industry “went off and found a job that has more … dependable wages,” said Jacqueline Allen, spokeswoman for state workforce development agency AIDT. “Everybody who basically wants a job right now has a job.” That’s My Child youth nonprofit founder Charles Lee said every member of his teens-to-work training program now graduates with a job, and the phone keeps ringing with employers asking for more. Meanwhile, he said federal relief payments and jobless benefits have changed people’s outlook on what’s possible. “It’s the most money some people have ever seen,” Lee said. “I think it’s just whoever is willing to go up to that $15
As of May 10, 2021, there are 653 confirmed cases and 50 suspected cases of COVID-19 among hospitalized patients in Colorado.
Some health officials in Colorado have warned that continued high numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations point to the pandemic not being over yet despite the state s average infection rate decreasing by nearly a third since April.
Colorado was averaging 1,731 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases each day in late April the most since Jan. 19 but the numbers fell nearly every day since then, The Gazette reported Monday. The state now averages 1,182 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past week, health officials said.
“Colorado is heading in a positive direction again, and vaccination coverage is almost certainly playing a key role in this decline,” said Glen Mays, chair of the Colorado School of Public Health’s department of health systems.
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