Starting Thursday Michigan is lifting its outdoor mask requirement for gatherings of 100 people or less. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, masks are still required for contact sports but not for practices or competition of non-contact sports. Softball and baseball players, for example, will be required to wear masks when in the dugout but not when at bat. Teen student athletes will no longer be required to undergo regular COVID-19 tests if they are fully vaccinated. The MDHHS also updated their rule requiring masks in indoor residential gatherings. State health officials say those who are fully vaccinated will no longer need to wear a mask when they are inside private residences as long as they are not showing symptoms of COIVD-19. Under the Governor’s “Vacc to Normal” plan, masks are still required in public settings until 70-percent of the state’s population has received at least one dose of the vaccine.
