Finally, County Health Director Sets Parameters For End Of Mask Mandate

Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer –who is not a medical doctor–says the mandate will be lifted – once the number of people hospitalized with coronavirus falls below 25-hundred and stay there for a week straight. Once that happens, masks won’t be required at large outdoor mega-events like football games, nor in the outdoor spaces of schools and childcare facilities. Right now, L.A. County has about 34-hundred COVID-positive hospital patients – it’s important to note that a large number of those patients were hospitalized for something else and tested positive for COVID later.