Santa Clara County health officials announced Tuesday that all their COVID benchmarks have been reached, allowing the county to lift its indoor COVID masking mandate on March 2.
“What we can expect with this pandemic is we will have peaks and valleys,” County public health director Dr. Sara Cody told reporters. “So right now, we are coming into a lovely valley. We can all really enjoy that.”Cody told reporters that the community spread of the virus has fallen significantly during the current lull to a level now safe enough for the county to finally join other Bay Area communities in lifting the mandate.
“Our trends are very strongly in a downward direction,” she told reporters. “The levels of community transmission have declined significantly over the last week and very significantly over the last two weeks. And the rate of decline continues to be fairly steep…All of our data is consistent, the level of community transmission in Santa Clara County is continuing to decrease.
“While indoor masking in public spaces will no longer be required, it still makes sense to do,” she said. “Wearing a mask is part of working together to protect others, especially the most vulnerable among us.”
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