The federal agency plans to unveil a change in the metrics used to determine whether mask recommendations are necessary as it embraces a more 'holistic view' of the pandemic's impact on a community, the Associated Press reported. 

Right now, the CDC recommends masks in 95 percent of counties, but the new system will evaluate whether hospitals are still being overburdened and if cases are on the rise when making mask-related determinations

The Biden administration has been stubbornly refusing to budge on its pandemic-related mandates, and as recently as last week said it wasn't ready to drop its mask mandates.

The president and first lady have continually wore masks whether indoors our outside. 

It's not clear whether face coverings will continue to be a requirement for schoolchildren, although CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky hinted that it's an unlikely scenario.

'Right now our CDC guidance has not changed. We continue to endorse universal masking in schools,' CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a radio interview with WYPR on February 15.

'We owe it to our children to make sure that they can safely stay in school. Right now, that includes masking. We've seen outbreaks that have occurred in communities where students were not masked in schools and had to close.'