Health Officials Say It’s Unlikely COVID-19 Mandates Will Come Back

A handful of health officials and researchers made predictions on whether mask mandates or lockdown orders will be enacted en masse.

People wearing protective face masks walk on the street in a file photo. Chung I Ho/The Epoch Times

A number of health officials and researchers made predictions on whether mask mandates or lockdown orders will be enacted en masse in the coming months due to COVID-19.

“I’ve only seen talk of mask mandates on social media. But the public health community is not thinking about mandates at all,” William Schaffner, the professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told Health.com this week. “People should absolutely not fret about mandates.”