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Why are federal officials considering revising mask guidance?
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    Dr. Fauci says health officials considering mask guidance revision for vaccinated.
    The Guardian (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 82% • 3 min read

    “[Revising mask guidance] is under active consideration,” Fauci told CNN’s State of the Union, though he also emphasized that local governments can issue their own rules under current guidance. Los Angeles county and St Louis, Missouri, have reinstated indoor mask requirements and other cities are weighing whether to do the same.
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    After a significant drop in cases from the national vaccine campaign, infections are rising in all 50 states and D.C. At a Thursday White House briefing, the surgeon general said 97% of hospital admissions and 99.5% of Covid-19 deaths were occurring among unvaccinated people.
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    Jerome Adams, the US surgeon general under former President Donald Trump, said the CDC should change its guidance in places with lower vaccination rates. He initially agreed with the CDC’s guidance in May that vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks, hoping it would encourage vaccinations. “In hindsight [...] the message many Americans heard was that, vaccinated or not, masks were gone for good."
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    Dr. Fauci says U.S. headed in `wrong direction’ on coronavirus.
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    Scientists urge local mask mandates as Delta sweeps the U.S.
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Which states is the DOJ investigating regarding nursing home deaths?


    In a letter to some GOP members of Congress, the DOJ said it has decided against opening a civil rights investigation into public nursing homes in New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan, but it still...

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Why did Tunisia's president fire the country's prime minister and freeze parliament?


    Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the country’s prime minister and froze parliament for 30 days on Sunday. Sa...

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What does a new report say about the treatment of women in the British military?


    [Parliament's] Defence Sub-Committee on Women in the Armed Forces received an almost unprecedented level of engagement during its inquiry, with the traumatizing “horror stories” it heard painting “a difficu...

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How did a nearly 3-week strike of Frito-Lay workers come to an end?


    The agreement, which was ratified in a vote that one union official described as close, puts an end to what workers at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, call “suicide shifts”...

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