Some doctors and public health experts are continuing to take precautions that go above and beyond the minimum mandates outlined at the state and local levels. Here’s what they are saying:
in indoor public areas, but not everyone has been quick to change their own daily habits.
, which puts the county in a category of substantial transmission. San Francisco is recording 37 cases for every 100,000 residents, putting the city in moderate transmission.Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of UC San Francisco’s Department of Medicine, said case rates have declined enough that he resumed dining at indoor restaurants in late February. On the other hand, when he’s at a supermarket, he’s not bothered by wearing a mask.
Chin-Hong’s gym still requires members to be vaccinated, and there’s a lot of ventilation, with high ceilings. Dr. Abraar Karan, an infectious-diseases expert at Stanford University, said he continues to wear a mask at the gym and other indoor public spaces. Chin-Hong said he’s worried about people who seem to be sheltering in place indefinitely. He thinks they can go out now, maybe “up their mask game in crowded indoor settings, but it’s relatively not that risky to them in low-risk settings now.”
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