Alabama Mask Mandate Will End In April03:33

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Alabama's mask mandate remains in place another month, even as the governors of Texas and Mississippi decided this week to lift theirs in a move President Biden described as "Neanderthal thinking.”

Republican Gov. Kay Ivey said on Thursday that she would extend the order through April 9, but no further.

Here & Now's Callum Borchers speaks with WBHM's Andrew Yeager.