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Sep. 23—OLYMPIA — While most emergency orders issued by Gov. Jay Inslee in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic will end Oct. 31, the order requiring masks in healthcare facilities, and in ...
Governor DeSantis warned that the state would withhold funding from schools and school boards that chose to mandate masks, and also threatened to withhold the wages from school officials responsible for implementing mask mandates. [269] A number of districts in both states announced that they would defy the orders and still mandate masks.
State requirements will be removed in places like schools, childcare facilities, restaurants, bars, grocery stores and other retail establishments. Washington's COVID-19 mask rules in schools ...
Schoolchildren in California, Oregon and Washington will no longer be required to wear masks as part of new indoor mask policies the Democratic governors of all three states announced jointly on ...
Mississippi announced on March 2, 2021, that it would fully reopen on March 3. The state would continue to make recommendations, but would repeal all mandates. [119] Texas also announced on March 2 that it would be fully reopened on March 10, 2021, with no mask requirements; the state would continue to issue recommendations. [120]
The order states that the heads of executive departments and agencies "shall immediately take action, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to require compliance with CDC guidelines with respect to wearing masks, maintaining physical distance, and other public health measures" by visitors and employees of federal land and properties, and commands the Secretary of Health and Human ...
Dec. 18—MultiCare Health System reinstated its mask mandate Monday in Spokane-area facilities , including Deaconess and Valley hospitals, based on the past week's rise in respiratory illnesses.
There are anti-mask laws in many U.S. states and the District of Columbia. [1]Many anti-mask laws date back to the mid-20th century, when states and municipalities passed them to stop the violent activities of the Ku Klux Klan, whose members typically wore hoods of white linen to conceal their identities.