The entire Bay Area has returned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's orange "substantial" and red "high" categories of coronavirus transmission — a step backward for some counties, like Marin and San Francisco, where transmission was previously classified as yellow, or "moderate." This comes after Marin County lifted its indoor mask mandate on Monday after reaching key COVID-19 benchmarks agreed upon by eight Bay Area counties. However, the mandate is unlikely to be immediately reinstated; the county's health officer Matt Willis said last week that an increase in cases alone will not determine whether masks come back; rather he will watch hospitalization numbers, which as of Friday were at a four-month low. San Francisco had reached the "moderate" level last week, but reverted to "substantial" on Tuesday. Under a framework agreed to by eight Bay Area counties , a county may lift its indoor mask mandate for fully vaccinated people when: 1) its vaccination rate reaches at least 80% or enough time has passed that children 5-11 years old can be fully vaccinated; 2) the county has been in the CDC's yellow "moderate" level of community transmission for at least three weeks — with tiers defined by case… Read full this story
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