ARIZONA 360

UA MASK POLICY: Former. U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona discusses how the campus plans to curb the spread of COVID-19 as it prepares to increase in-person instruction, including reinforcing its mask policy. Carmona leads the university’s COVID response. MASK SOCIOLOGY: ASU Communications professor Bradley Adame (UH-dom-A) discusses some of the psychological and societal factors that lead individuals to choose whether or not to wear a mask even in areas where they are not required. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM REOPENS: Tony Paniagua visits the Children’s Museum in Tucson which recently reopened its doors after closing for months during the pandemic. He sees what protocols are in place to keep guests safe. CROSS BORDER TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS: As travel restrictions remain in place at the U.S.-Mexico border, Vamos a Tucson’s Felipe Garcia discusses how fewer visitors from Mexico have impacted the local economy. Across the border, in Hermosillo, Sonora, journalist and podcaster Claudia Orduño, describes the financial situation in the Mexican state.