California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that he would let the order mandating indoor masking expire on Feb. 15 for those who are vaccinated against COVID-19.

According to NBC, California will no longer have an indoor mask requirement for the vaccinated after that date, but localities can still abide by their own rules should they choose to continue requiring masks indoors.

Masks will remain a requirement in schools for students of all ages, vaccinated or not.

Since that most recent wave of COVID-19 cases, California case rates have dropped 65%, according to state data. Like many states in the U.S., most of the data in California suggests that the people getting a severe illness, hospitalized or dying from the coronavirus' Omicron variant are unvaccinated. From Jan. 10 to Jan. 16, "unvaccinated people were 7.5 times more likely to get COVID-19 than people who received their booster dose," the state found.

While California is keeping its school mask mandate in place, some states have supported the need to end mask mandates in schools.

Speaking on Pennsylvania's mask policies, Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf said to PennLive in December that “schools are still free to do whatever they want to do. Some are taking the masking off, some are continuing with the masking.” Wolf said he would encourage people to get vaccinated.

On Monday, Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., announced the end of mask mandates for students and teachers in New Jersey starting on March 7, emphasizing that people want to return to normal and figure out a way to learn to live with the virus.

“We have to learn how to live with COVID as we move from a pandemic to the endemic phase of this virus,” he said, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said last week, via Spectrum News 1, that her decision to let the mask mandate for schools expire would depend on how many local kids are vaccinated and what the case rates are in the state.

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