A ruling by a judge in Florida means that the federal requirement to wear masks on airplanes and public transportation appears to be dead.
In a 59-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Florida, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority in issuing the original health order that the Transportation Security Administration used to impose the mask mandate. She said the CDC didn’t follow proper rulemaking procedures.
High-quality masks work in two ways, said Carl Bergstrom, a University of Washington evolutionary biologist who studies emerging infectious diseases: They protect the wearer by limiting the number of infectious particles inhaled, and they protect others by limiting particles exhaled if the wearer is infected.Probably not.
The Justice Department said Tuesday it won't appeal Mizelle's ruling unless the CDC believes that the mask requirement is still necessary. The announcement doesn't mean that an appeal is certain, but it signals that one could be filed if the CDC decides later that the mandate should be revived.
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