Upated Facemask Use Recommendations

While Los Angeles County remains in the Low CDC COVID-19 community level, masks are still required in some settings, and not required, but strongly recommended in others.

You* must wear a mask in:

• Healthcare settings
• Congregate care facilities, such as long-term care settings and adult/senior care facilities
• In any other location where it is required by the business or venue
• If you have COVID-19. You must wear a highly protective mask (even at home) when you are around others until you end isolation. If you are eligible to end isolation after Day 5 because you have a negative test result, it is strongly recommended that you continue to wear a mask through Day 10. In workplace settings, you must wear a mask through Day 10.
• If you are a close contact to someone with COVID-19. You must wear a highly protective mask when you are around others indoors for 10 days after your last day of exposure.
• If there has been a recent outbreak at your workplace or the congregate setting where you live.

Masks are strongly recommended:

• On all forms of public transit, including trains, buses, shuttle buses, taxis, ride-shares, and medical transport.
• In all transportation hubs, including airport and bus terminals, train and subway stations, seaports or other indoor port terminals, or any other indoor area that serves as a transportation hub
• If you are at risk for severe illness wear a highly protective mask when you are in a higher risk setting. These include any of the “three Cs”:
• Closed spaces with poor air flow
• Crowded places with many people nearby, and
• Close contact settings especially where people are talking (or breathing heavily) close together.

Masking is an individual preference in the following settings:

• In state and local correctional facilities and detention centers
• Homeless and emergency shelters
• In all other indoor public settings, businesses, government offices, childcare, TK-12 schools, and higher education settings.

There are some people who should not wear a mask, such as children younger than 2, people with certain medical conditions or disabilities, and people instructed by their medical provider not to wear a mask. See Who should not wear a mask and special considerations for persons with communication difficulties or certain disabilities.

Indoor mask wearing rules and recommendations in Los Angeles County change based on federal, state, and county requirements and the LA County CDC COVID-19 community level and transmission rate.

Updated Health Officer Order - Health Care Workers

The Health Officer Order for Health Care Worker Vaccination Requirement has been updated (updates are highlighted in yellow), effective September 17, 2022. Updated to align with the recent change to the State Health Officer’s Health Care Worker Vaccine Requirement Order, which:

• Rescinds the testing requirement (except as specifically noted to comply with federal requirements) for workers exempt due to medical reasons or religious beliefs.
• Notes that facilities should maintain testing capacity at their worksite and have the ability to ramp up testing at their worksite in the event of outbreaks or if it is required again at a future date.
• Updates timing of required booster doses co
• Consistent with current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations.

Additional Resources 

- Information for the Public 

• Masks
• Travel
• Reducing Risk
• Public Settings
• Sick?
• Find a Test to Treat Site
• Workers’ Rights Pamphlet
• Request an in-home vaccination appointment
• Best Practices for Businesses 
• Food and Beverage
• Indoor Fitness
• Large Events
• Offices
• Personal Care 
• Request a Mobile Vaccination Clinic