In the face of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) sudden guidance change last week that allows for vaccinated people to go maskless in most indoor situations, Santa Barbara County will keep its mask mandate for another month longer.
“The CDC guidance does allow for local and state governance, and based upon the Sacramento CDPH recommending that we maintain the masks indoors, we are keeping masks because we simply aren’t there yet in terms of vaccination rates,” Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso said.
June 15 is the target date that the state plans to remove masks indoors, when it will also lose the “blueprint” tiered system of slowly reopening the economy and go back to much of what life was like before the pandemic.
