Mask confusion: To wear or not to wear.

MEDICAL masks; COMMUNICABLE disease control; VACCINATION; PUBLIC spaces; CUOMO, Andrew, 1957-; SOCIAL distancing

The article focuses on the confusion over the wearing of mask in New York state in May 2021. Topics discussed include the emergence of New York as one of the states that allowed vaccinated individuals not to wear masks, places that still require the wearing of mask such as public transit, hospitals, homeless shelter and prisons, and decision of Governor Andrew Cuomo to lift the mask mandate and social distancing rules and retain the wearing of masks in pre-K to 12 schools and the subway.