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Mask off, DC

15 February 2022

1:05 PM

15 February 2022

1:05 PM

The nation’s capital is finally dropping its vaccine and mask mandates…mostly.

DC mayor Muriel Bowser reluctantly followed the science and ended the vaccine requirement for the district’s businesses effective Tuesday — rendering the city’s “get the vax to see the acts” campaign null and void. The decision to require proof of vaccination now falls to individual businesses in the city — a civil rights victory, surely, given that just under a quarter of DC’s black residents remain unvaccinated.

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