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With the Omicron wave subsiding, many governors are once again revising mask rules and making plans to lift mandates for the general public, and in some cases in schools. Here is a list of upcoming changes:

Delaware will end its indoor mask mandate on Feb. 11 but will keep requirements for schools through March.

Rhode Island also will lift indoor mask requirements on Feb. 11 but

Amid the spike in COVID cases in the San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Cruz County has imposed a sweeping indoor mask mandate for private settings including homes.

For those gathering with people who don’t live in the same household, masks should be worn inside regardless of vaccination status, the county announced Monday. The guidelines also apply to businesses, with exceptions for eating

Democrat Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) this week blocked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) after the Republican tried to pass the “Freedom to Breathe” Act by unanimous consent. The act would essentially ban federal mask mandates. “We tried mask mandates once in this country. They failed to control the spread of respiratory viruses, violated basic bodily freedom, and set our fellow citizens against one another,”

Mask mandates are making a comeback in a handful of school districts across the country, even as the school year wraps up and districts shift to summer school.

At least a dozen school districts in some of the most populated cities in the country still mandate masks in schools. In several instances, the districts had removed mask mandates but then elected to reinstate them, citing rising