Summary: <p>Nsikan Akpan, WNYC's health and science editor, and Annie Linskey, <em>Washington Post</em> national reporter covering the White House, talk about the CDC's change to its indoor mask guidance, including the political forces at play, and what it means for people's health.</p> <p>Correction to some numbers, from the desk of Nsikan Akpan: There have been about <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html">1,300 severe COVID cases (hospitalizations/deaths)</a> out of 115 million fully vaccinated, which works out to about 1 hospitalization/death for every 100,000 people fully vaccinated. The number of breakthrough infections is <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/past-breakthrough-data.html">9,245 infections out of 95 million fully vaccinated</a>. That would work out to about 1 in 10,000 breakthrough infections. </p>
