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There's a growing push to ditch the mask mandate among the nation's airlines.
Texas A&M's public health professor Dr. Gerald Parker says it doesn't make sense, noting that the greater risk of transmission is inside the airports. That's where you have people from all over standing in close lines.
The heads of American and Southwest Airlines, both based in Texas, have sent a letter to the Biden Administration saying the science clearly supports lifting the mask mandate.