Justice says it may appeal if the c d c insists that the masked mandate is needed. Justice department would not go for a stay. It really is concerned that this judge may have sent precedent prohibiting the c d C from taking action like this inthe future with another health omercancy. Meanwhile, how do the american people feel about this? The polling would suggest that people are generally fine with wearing masks.
A Florida judge ended the federal government’s mass transit mask mandate this week. Vox’s Dylan Scott explains if mask mandates are over forever and Dr. Kavita Patel explores how much of a difference that would make.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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