PEORIA, Ill. – For many of your friends and neighbors, there may one thing about the COVID-19 pandemic that will continue to be done: the wearing of masks.
Usage of them is going up again, as cases of both COVID and the flu are increasing, while RSV may be levelling off.
Doctor Doug Kasper with the University of Illinois College of Medicine says he doesn’t think there will be a mandate, though, except maybe in some areas.
“We’ve seen some chatter, especially out of major metropolitan areas, around public health venues — whether it’s prisons or convalescent homes — where there could be some enforcement,” said Kasper.
Kasper tells WMBD’s “The Greg and Dan Show” the move to people being able to make individual decisions about mask wearing is an important one.
“It’s definitely more in the individual realm,” said Kasper. “Individuals that feel very strongly, one way the other, about being able to make their own decisions, is a change. And I think that’s probably a sustained change — meaning that we’ll see this seasonally, where we know that as cases rise, and you have family members or yourself are at risk, that there is a way to protect yourself.”
