“I think people are misinterpreting, thinking that this is a removal of a mask mandate for everyone.
It’s not,” Dr. Fauci toldAxios.
However, this does not mean thatFaucidoesn’t understand where the confusion comes from, and told Axios so.
“It’s not their fault,” Fauci said.
“People either read them quickly, or listen and hear half of it.
They are feeling that we’re saying: ‘You don’t need the mask anymore.’
That’s not what the CDC said.
It did not explicitly say that unvaccinated people should abandon their masks.”
The CDC also tried to clear up the confusion as people worried that non-vaccinated people would purposely notmask.
CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky urged unvaccinated people to still play it safe onABC’s “This Week”.
