would change the mandate based on when a certain number of 5- to-11-year-olds, and a certain number of individuals who are part of “vulnerable” populations were sufficiently vaccinated, but declined to give specific numbers.
von Storch, who testified at that hearing before the oversight committee on behalf of the D.C. Fitness Alliance, a coalition of 20 fitness centers and studios in D.C., said that the coalition’s position was that vaccination was the ultimate solution to seeing COVID-19 infections fade away, but that masks were a “temporary mitigation measure.” In that testimony, he noted that data shows that gyms and fitness centers in states without indoor mask mandates had no greater incidence of community spread than gyms and fitness.