On March 12, California will lift its requirement that students wear masks inside schools and child care facilities, leaving it up to local communities and public health officials to determine their own rules on masking. The move follows an announcement on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that mask mandates are not needed where case rates and hospitalizations are low or moderate. In the Bay Area, only Napa and Solano counties were designated by the CDC as still having high enough rates to merit continued masking in schools. To read the full story, click the 🔗 in our bio. #covid19 #covid #maskmandate #bayarea #sf