Matters Of Policy & Politics: Goodbye, Mask Mandate . . . Now What?

Does a Florida judge’s decision to strike down the federal mandate for wearing masks mark a shift from pandemic to endemic thinking? Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Hoover senior fellow,  Stanford University professor of medicine, and epidemiological researcher, discusses the efficacy of mask-wearing, the nuances of the BA.2 variant, and lessons from past lockdowns, plus a proposed bill in Sacramento that would suppress COVID-19 dissenters in California’s medical community.