Marin County Lifts Indoor Mask Mandate for People Vaccinated Against COVID-19

The masks are coming disconnected successful astir each indoor concern successful Marin County.

The region connected Monday became the archetypal successful the Bay Area to assistance its indoor disguise mandate for vaccinated radical due to the fact that of the county’s precocious vaccination complaint and dwindling COVID-19 cases.

Many accidental it’s astir clip for the change.

"I’m happy," Ryan Atwood of Rohnert Park said. "Yeah, can’t hold to propulsion this happening connected the crushed and astir apt person to prime it up sometime soon again, though. Can’t wait."

Some deliberation it's excessively soon.

"Yeah, I’m inactive keeping my disguise on," Osman Maldonado, who works successful Sausalito, said. "To beryllium safe, myself and my family, too."

Unvaccinated radical volition inactive person to deterioration a disguise indoors, though the region is leaving it up to each concern erstwhile it comes to however they constabulary their customers for their vaccination status.

"I deliberation radical volition consciousness much relaxed, store astir more, hopefully, and person a bully time," Chris Hontalas of Venice Gourmet Delicatessen said.

People volition inactive person to deterioration a disguise successful hospitals, schools and erstwhile utilizing nationalist transit.

"We’re not saying propulsion your masks retired completely," region spokesperson Laine Hendricks said. "We’ve seen the grounds that masks play a precise important role, and arsenic we participate the vacation season, and besides with flu play coming around, we inactive promote the usage of masks."

In Marin County, 81.3% of radical are vaccinated. That fig is expected to soar into the 90s erstwhile younger children go eligible to get the vaccine.

While the county’s wellness and quality services section volition proceed to show hospitalization rates during the holidays, Hendricks said it would instrumentality an unexpected crook of events to bring the disguise mandate back.

"We conscionable consciousness that we’re astatine a spot wherever we nary longer request to mandate it done laws," Hendricks said. "Our assemblage knows what to do."