New York and Massachusetts will be ending their mask mandates and social distancing rules in the very near future.
Both New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced on Monday that their states would be following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and no longer require people who are fully vaccinated to wear masks or socially distance outdoors and in most indoor locations.
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New York will lift its rules on Wednesday, while Massachusetts will do so on May 29.
“We have to reopen with a cautious eye, but we have to get back to life,” Cuomo said Monday. “We have to get back to life and living. We have to do it the way New Yorkers do it, quickly and robustly.”
In both states, masks will still be required in most healthcare facilities, on public and private transportation, in prisons, and indoors for staff and students in public schools. They will also be required for people who are not fully vaccinated.
State and local governments have come under increasing pressure to relax COVID-19 guidelines after the CDC announced last Thursday that it no longer recommended that people who are vaccinated should wear masks or socially distance indoors or outdoors.
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In New York, county executives from Duchess, Suffolk, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, and Ulster Counties released a joint statement Sunday asking Cuomo to follow CDC guidelines on masks and social distancing.
