The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to announce new COVID-19 guidelines, including for masking, on Friday, according to multiple reports.

A source told Axios that the new benchmarks will consider a community’s number of cases, hospitalizations, and hospital capacity in its new recommendations, placing less emphasis on case counts alone as the more transmissible, but oftentimes less severe, omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads across the globe and more people get vaccinated.

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