WASHINGTON — On Friday morning, first lady Jill Biden walked into the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington. There, in the museum’s soaring lobby, she did something momentous: She took off her mask.
“I guess I can take off my mask while I’m speaking,” Biden said. She was there in advance of the museum’s reopening on Saturday. As she toured the facility, however, she put her mask back on, per Smithsonian Institution reopening guidance.
One day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that vaccinated Americans could take off their face masks both indoors and out, Washington was discovering exactly what