All Orange County residents still required to wear masks at work until at least late June

All Orange County residents still required to wear masks at work until at least late June

UC Irvine epidemiologist and public health expert [associate professor] Andrew Noymer said the mask debate is essentially moot at this point because coronavirus transmission rates are so low. “We’re in such a lenient period right now in terms of transmission rates, it’s really a question of just kind of waiting and seeing what happens in the fall. There’s going to be very little incidents of COVID this Summer, barring the unseen,” Noymer said in a phone interview last Thursday.