The Latest Breaking News from CDC

The agency emphasizes that children face a very low risk from COVID-19, which it has known all along.

Government can't stop moving the COVID-19 goal posts.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s move came hours after the Illinois Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal of a decision in a lawsuit challenging Pritzker’s mask mandate. But the state’s top court also tossed a Sangamon County judge’s temporary restraining order, issued earlier this month, that invalidated the mandate.

Under new CDC guidelines, masks are still recommended in 21 counties across southern and central Illinois, but not in any part of the Chicago area.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky stressed that people could continue to wear masks if they wanted to.

ATLANTA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new strategy on mask wearing Friday that will allow most people to ditch masks in most indoor settings, including classrooms.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlined the new set of measures for communities where COVID-19 is easing its grip.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has scaled back its mask recommendations nationwide as the spread of COVID’s omicron variant has slowed.

As hospitalizations and deaths have fallen CDC will focus on ‘enhanced prevention efforts’ in areas with high infection rates