New Mexico keeping mask mandate as other states drop requirement
New Mexico will use its own information to decide when to remove its coronavirus mask mandate, and that time hasn’t come, the state’s top health official said Wednesday.
Dr. David Scrase, acting secretary of the state Department of Health, said in a news conference he had been drilled Tuesday by residents who felt mask rule changes in New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut and Oregon should compel New Mexico to lift its mandate immediately.
New Mexico leaders will make a decision based on needs here, he said. Scrase said the state’s hospital emergency rooms, medical beds and intensive care units are full, and that omicron has hit children harder than previous variants did.
Hospitals administrators are “not sending the emails asking to end the mask mandate,” he said. New Mexico’s mandate generally calls for people to wear masks indoors in public places. Scrase said he wouldn’t predict when New Mexico will ease its mask mandate. He shared statistics showing pediatric cases of coronavirus in New Mexico spiked in January, indicating omicron is invasive in children.
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the fate of the pandemic although the Federal had guidelines and mandates. Most Blue states recognized the tremendous danger of the Pandemic and through voluntary and/or mandate required vaccinations and mask for the main purpose of protection and survival.
And yet, the red states generally contested these guidelines and mandates and again sued wherein in some cases the US SC intervened and yes, the 6 justices don't actually care about Americans also, and therefore, it has taken two years to "hopefully" cornering Sars 2 Covid.
Hats off to the Blue states, you guys cared and still cares.