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Hi. I'm Art Caplan. I'm at the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine.

Masks are in the news again but not necessarily for good reasons. A federal court judge in Florida struck down the Biden administration's mask mandate. The mandate was going to run out anyway within a couple of weeks, but when the court struck it down, it basically said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just didn't have the authority to enforce a mask mandate in public places like airports, train stations, on airlines, and in other places.

I think that decision was very wrong. One could say that all of us are getting tired of COVID-19. It's absolutely clear that there's COVID-19 exhaustion. In talking with your patients, I'm sure many are saying they don't want to wear a mask, they want to go out, and they want to go back to normal. Head over to Medscape to read the full story.