Capital Blue Cross is a proud supporter of your health checkup, things may feel more normal by Memorial Day when Governor Tom Wolf plans to relax coronavirus mitigation efforts across the state.

I'm going to be open by June 1st, Memorial Day weekend.

Aside from masking capacity restrictions on bars, restaurants and indoor and outdoor gatherings will go away just after midnight on Monday, May 31st.

At some point we have to make that move.

I think people and the general public are getting very frustrated and fatigued with this pandemic.

Dr Mark Knouse is the leader of the Infectious Diseases Department at Lehigh Valley Health Network.

He supports the timing.

As long as we keep the push to appropriate masking and distancing within the context of the listed restrictions and continue to strongly encourage vaccination.

I think it could go well as far as mask in goes Governor Wolf the order on wearing masks will be lifted once 70% of people age 18 and up are fully vaccinated in the state.

At the same time, around 50% of Pennsylvanians have at least a first dose.

The governor says he hopes everyone follows the safety measures we've learned over the past 16 months as we move forward through the summer and into a new school year.

By the time we get to the fall, they're going to be a lot of things that are very, very different than what they are now.

We're going to want to stay safe for PBS39.

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