The counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sonoma and the city of Berkeley today issued health orders, mandating indooor masking for everyone, regardless of vaccination status. These health orders will take effect at midnight tonight. Across the Bay Area region, we are seeing Covid-19 cases surging and hospitalizations are on a steep rise again, particularly among the unvaccinated. If you are able to choose between an indoor and an outdoor space, we recommend that you choose outdoor activities. There are people who have to work indoors, though. And for that group, we want to make sure that we are protecting them, our frontline workers have been essential during the pandemic and they continue to be essential during this reopening period. So both for the fact that there are people out there that cannot get vaccinated because they aren’t eligible. And we want to protect our workers. Today’s announcement reflects both the California Department of Public Health and the C.D.C.‘s guidance for everyone to wear a mask indoors in public if you’re in an area of substantial or high transmission. Every county represented here today has substantial or high levels of community transmission. We must take this action to end this summer surge.