Individuals may still choose to wear a mask.
Businesses and venue operators may implement vaccine verification or require all patrons wear masks, regardless of vaccination status. Vaccinated people: Masks are not required in indoor or outdoor public settings, with a few exceptions: on public transportation, including in hubs such as airports and transit stations in health care settings indoors in K-12 schools, child care and other youth settings in shelters and cooling centers and in correctional facilities. State regulators initially continued to require masks for all employees in the workplace, but have since brought rules in line with the state standards. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on mask mandates as of June 15, which means that fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks except in particularly risky spaces. What’s new: California has mostly aligned with the U.S. Exemptions: Children younger than 2, individuals with a medical condition, mental health disability, disability or hearing impairment that prevents them from wearing a mask, and people who work jobs in which wearing a mask would create a risk for them at work.