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The vote won't affect the current school year, since it comes a day after students' last day of class, but would make masks optional at graduation and summer school.

An appeals court has not ruled on the challenge to the county mask order and an attorney for the plaintiff filed a document suggesting the case is moot after a governor's order halting local restructions,

But no vote is imminent in Hillsborough County as some parents are demanding the face-mask policies end immediately.

Several retailers including Publix, Target, Winn-Dixie, Walmart, Trader Joe's and Starbucks are loosening requirements, using recent CDC guidance in their decisions.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shifted its stance this week on the need to wear masks if you're vaccinated. What's that mean for kids? For travel? For work? Experts weigh in.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says vaccinated people still must follow existing state, local or tribal laws on masks and social distancing.

It is unclear what impact this will have on teachers, staff and students in the near term. In some states, masks in schools are already optional.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said," We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some kind of normalcy." But local authorities are making their own decisions on relaxing the rules.

Some parts of public life in the U.S. still operate according to restrictive rules, and that includes planes, trains and buses.

Biden says, "Today is a great day for America and our long battle with coronavirus. ... It's been made possible by the extraordinary success we've had in vaccinating so many Americans so quickly."