The mayor said she would raise parts of the district's indoor mask mandate on Monday because the city has reached the "green zone," meaning there is enough healthcare space, a minimal spread of the coronavirus, and a high level of community action against it. While the overall ranking is green, some individual criteria remain yellow or red.
"Going forward, The D.C. The Department of Health will create guidance based on risk levels and the use of layered mitigation strategies. Risk levels will primarily be tied to a person's vaccination status," Bowser said in a statement Tuesday morning.
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Masks will still be demanded carelessly of vaccination status for public transportation, schools, child care, and any private businesses that choose to complete it.
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Leading up to this announcement, the city kept several strict COVID-19 measures, including mask and vaccine mandates for many public workers. Distinctly, there have been questions about whether the district actually makes its vaccine mandate for firefighters and medical workers.
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According to the district's data, Washington, with a population of about 700,000 people, has given over 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Approximately 76% of Washington's population is partially vaccinated, and 63% is fully vaccinated.
The district estimates a seven-day average daily case rate of 10.9 per 100,000 residents, earning its "yellow" or phase two distinction. Bowser announced on Nov. 8 that she will seek a third term as mayor in 2022.
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The changes, according to DC Health director LaQuandra Nesbitt, are designed to help residents assess their risk of contracting and falling seriously ill with the virus, as leaders begin to look at the virus as more of an "endemic" disease, meaning cases are constantly present at a baseline within certain regions. There isn't currently a benchmark or metric that would trigger a mask mandate again or further restrictions. Instead, Bowser said DC Health will continue to monitor transmission.
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"We are learning to live with COVID…and the other part of that is, the world is not necessarily set up for the unvaccinated anymore," Nesbitt said. "We want to make sure that our residents have all of the information that they need to be able to understand their individual risks for COVID-19, based on their own exposure, their health status, as well as our risk in the community."
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Neil Sehgal, a public health professor at the University of Maryland, tells DCist/WAMU that the city is definitely in a better position with the pandemic than this summer. However, he stresses that infection rates have started to plateau ahead of a holiday season where increased travel and socializing indoors is likely to cause some sort of increase in cases locally. Still, he says, just because it's not required anymore doesn't mean wearing a mask indoors is a bad decision.
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