SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Santa Clara County health officials announced on the morning of March 1 that the county is dropping the indoor mask requirement, moving to a recommendation, as of March 2 midnight for all people regardless of vaccination status. For weeks, Santa Clara had been the only Bay Area county to still have an indoor mask mandate. Last fall, all Bay Area counties adopted a set of three shared metrics to determine when to drop their masking rules. As of Feb. 24, Santa Clara County met for the first time the metric of 550 or fewer cases per day for a full week. Prior to then, the county had already met the targets of low and stable hospitalization numbers and an 80 percent or higher vaccination rate. “We’ve reached a level where it feels safe enough to make the transition from requirement to strong recommendation, and that’s the transition we’re …
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