What About Listening to the Science? States and Companies Won't Commit to CDC Guidelines Granting More Freedom

While it's encouraging that the CDC caught up with the science enough to acknowledge that "If you are fully vaccinated, you are protected," and thus has relaxed mask mandates.

On Thursday, the governors of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia, and the mayors of New York City and Washington, D.C., all Democrats, said they were taking the new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under advisement before adopting it.

"Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said that the state had"always relied on the facts and the science to guide us throughout the worst of this pandemic" and that he would review the new federal guidelines with the state Health Department and health experts in neighboring states.

The United Food and Commercial Workers union, representing thousands of grocery store workers, criticized the C.D.C. for failing to consider how the new policy would impact workers who have to deal with customers who are not vaccinated.

The Retail Leaders Industry Association, a trade group, said that the policy complicated matters in states that still have mask mandates in place that retailers must follow.

The CDC has been super slow when it comes to updating their guidelines.

What more time do states and companies who refuse to jump on board need, then? If they're not going to be listening to the CDC, who are they going to be listening to? What left is there to review?
 

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