Las Vegas doctor urges everyone to wear a mask around others, including vaccinated

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) – To slow the spread of COVID-19 and its variants, Los Angeles County, California is rolling back its mask mandate, requiring everyone to wear a mask indoors, even if they are vaccinated. Now a local doctor is encouraging everyone in Las Vegas to do the same.

Two days ago, the Chief Medical Officer of Southern Hills Hospital suggested Dr. Domenic Martinello Alert that more and more unvaccinated people have to be hospitalized because of COVID-19.

Because of this, he urges everyone to wear a mask in certain situations to help slow the rise in infections in Las Vegas.

“The most of us [medical professionals] I think the best thing is to carry on with what we did a year ago: social distancing, masking within tight limits, especially when you are around unvaccinated people, but even vaccinated people can still put a mask on and help Fact. It’s about levels of risk. So the CDC says that now with people who have been vaccinated it is less risky to be inside without masks. What we’re saying is you can still wear masks indoors. It’s not mandatory, but if you want that extra level of protection and you definitely want to help those around you, most of us in the health care industry by and large still do, “said Dr. Martinello.

Ever since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidelines that vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks, it feels like face coverings have become a relic of the pandemic past. But Margaret, a Las Vegas native, still wears a mask in the supermarket, even though she’s vaccinated.

“Just for my own safety. I don’t know who is vaccinated and who is not. And I prefer to play it safe with the Delta variant, ”she said.

Shelly, who was born and raised in Las Vegas, suspects that many people lie about their vaccination status to avoid wearing a mask.

“It’s scary. I don’t think a lot of people are wearing the mask and they haven’t been vaccinated. And people who aren’t vaccinated have to get vaccinated for everyone’s safety,” Shelly said.

For this very reason, Jeff, a Las Vegas-based Lyft driver, believes the CDC was too quick to change its guidelines for wearing masks in public places.

“I would prefer my guests to wear masks, but you know what the hotels are like, the restaurants, it’s all gone. And yet we are here with renewed incidents of COVID. So I think we should have left. “A little longer,” Jeff said.

Kenneth also lives in Las Vegas and is not a fan of face coverings, but says he would be ready to wear the mask again so the world can go on working.

“If we do this to avoid shutting down again, then we have to do everything we can to prevent it from happening again, and I’m all for it. So as long as we can keep people working and hold people back to their lives then whatever we have to do to keep this going, “he said.

No word yet on whether Governor Steve Sisolak or Clark County Commissioners are considering reintroducing health guidelines like the mask mandate.