Stores, States Drop Mask Mandates in Wake of CDC’s Updated Guidance

A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at Tableau restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans, La., on April 13, 2021. Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP

States and stores on Friday said they were largely dropping their mask requirements after a top U.S. health agency advised that people fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 could stop donning face coverings.

The governors of at least 10 states and officials at a slew of retail giants, like Walmart, announced they would no longer require masks, at least for those fully vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.