To mask or not to mask? Where are we in the COVID pandemic.

Two years and multiple waves into the coronavirus pandemic, and state and local leaders now say most Marylanders can reenter society and do it without a mask. Some 90% of the country now falls in the low to moderate categories for levels and spread of COVID-19 under new calculations by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also sufficient to ditch the masks. “COVID-19 need no longer control our lives,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday during his State of the Union speech.