BREAKING LA County on Friday will lift indoor mask mandate at establishments, businesses and venues that verify vaccination status
LOS ANGELES -- Vaccinated individuals will be allowed to go maskless in L.A. County establishments, businesses and venues that verify vaccination status, according to a newly revised public health order that will take effect Friday, officials said.
County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer had previously outlined metrics that would have to be met for the county to drop its indoor mask mandate -- metrics that would likely keep the rule in place until the end of March. But dissent grew among the county Board of Supervisors last week when Hahn joined her colleague Kathryn Barger in asking that the county aligns with the state on the indoor masking issue.
According to Ferrer, reaching the CDC's"moderate'' level of transmission requires the county to have a seven-day cumulative infection rate of less than 50 per 100,000 residents. As of Monday, the county's rate was 133 per 100,000 residents. Barger argued, however, that maintaining stricter rules than the state created confusion among residents and contributed to a lack of compliance -- which was on full display during the recent Super Bowl in Inglewood, where fans almost universally violated the county's outdoor mask-wearing mandate.