Austin-Travis County ditches stages, adopts CDC's COVID-19 risk guidelines

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The local health authority announced Tuesday morning that Austin Public Health is ditching its current COVID-19 risk-based guidelines system and aligning itself with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) model instead.
It will now follow the CDC's low, medium and high risk-based model which only recommends masking for people who are up-to-date on vaccines in the high-risk stage.
Travis County is currently in the low-risk category, under that new model, which does