California will hold off on adopting recently updated guidance from the top US public health agency on the use of face masks by fully vaccinated people.
The adoption of new guidelines, announced last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will be delayed until June 15, Mark Ghaly, the state’s health director, said during a call with reporters on Monday.
That will give businesses time to make necessary adjustments and allow more people to get vaccinated, he said, and coincide with the date governor Gavin Newsom has earmarked for lifting nearly all of the state’s coronavirus restrictions.
Since the CDC said on May 13 that it was safe for fully vaccinated people to forgo masks in almost all indoor and outdoor settings, governors have taken different approaches to the guidance.
New Jersey governor Phil Murphy said on Monday that the mask mandate for outdoor public…
