DC’s mask mandate is gone, and it has cost zero lives thus far

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What does total herd immunity from the coronavirus look like? It might look like Washington, D.C.

Even before Mayor Muriel Bowser reimposed an indoor mask mandate over the summer, the nation’s capital had averaged less than one coronavirus death per week. By the time the Democrat decided to revoke the mandate last month, just 12 unvaccinated residents had died in all of 2021. And now, more than a week after the mask mandate’s removal went into effect, not one life has been lost to the coronavirus.

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