{"id":1013821,"date":"2021-05-14T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1013821"},"modified":"2021-05-15T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T21:36:25","slug":"longview-drops-requirement-to-wear-mask-at-city-events-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1013821","title":{"rendered":"Longview drops requirement to wear mask at city events, properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/longview-cityof-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1013828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/longview-cityof-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/longview-cityof-1.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; The city of Longview has dropped its mandate to wear a mask at city events and in city buildings. According to our news partner KETK, Mayor Andy Mack said the city dropped its mandate after the CDC announced that people who have been vaccinated no longer need to wear a mask indoors around others. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you have been vaccinated, you are free to take your mask off in this public arena,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mack said at the council meeting. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been vaccinated, we ask you to keep it on but you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up to you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mack said at least 62,000 people have received a COVID-19 vaccination at the vaccination hub in Longview. Others have received vaccinations at pharmacies and other places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; The city of Longview has dropped its mandate to wear a mask at city events and in city buildings. According to our news partner KETK, Mayor Andy Mack said the city dropped its mandate after the CDC announced that people who have been vaccinated no longer need to wear a mask indoors around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1013821\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview drops requirement to wear mask at city events, properties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1013831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/longview-cityof-1-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Longview drops requirement to wear mask at city events, properties","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 19:36:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/longview-cityof-1-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Longview drops requirement to wear mask at city events, properties","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013829,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013821\/revisions\/1013829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}