At least one official in California has recommended that residents wear masks indoors due to an increase in COVID-19 in recent days.
Wastewater data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday show that California is seeing “very high” levels of the virus, while all states on the West Coast are either at “high” or “very high” levels.
The top health official for Yolo County, located outside Sacramento, said in a statement last week that residents are advised to wear masks indoors. No mandate was issued.
“California is experiencing a summer COVID wave,” Aimee Sisson, the Yolo County health officer, said in the statement. “Based on current wastewater levels of the virus that causes COVID-19, I recommend that everybody in West Sacramento wear a mask when they are around others in indoor public spaces.”…