Science changing? CDC to finally "loosen" mask guidelines ... after Dem governors bail

Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick might only come in second place for eagerly awaited and overdue announcements today. Weeks after most Democrat governors abandoned the CDC’s masking guidelines in the face of voter revolts, the CDC may announce as early as today that the science has changed.

The political science, that is:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon loosen its mask guidelines by weighing metrics such as hospital capacity and coronavirus admissions, rather than simply looking at case counts, so more people can feel comfortable going maskless in indoor public spaces, according to two senior administration officials and two people familiar with the plans.

The change comes weeks after numerous states, including those led by Democratic governors, announced plans to lift mandates as omicron cases drop sharply. But states have long been pressing the agency for better guidelines to inform their decisions to ease restrictions, the officials said.

Translation: Democratic governors and mayors have begged the CDC for some political cover for their retreat. That followed months of demands from executives of both parties for the CDC to clearly define the metrics that require masking and objective measures that would allow them to ease such mandates. The CDC instead kept refusing to specify either a data set metric or the science that demonstrated the need for masking, especially in schools.