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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Why is Oregon One of the Last States with a Mask Mandate?
Description: Full Text: Why does Oregon still have a mask mandate? Oregon is now one of the last states to have a statewide mask mandate for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
If you listen closely to our public health experts, they say they’re focused on hospitalizations. Once the hospitalizations come down, they say then we can throw off our masks.
Way back in August, when Governor Kate Brown re-imposed the mask mandate, she said it was so we wouldn’t overwhelm the state’s hospitals.
Why is Oregon hung up on hospitalizations? It’s simple...