1. When there’s low transmission of the virus in their area, which could be soon but is definitely not right now.

Each expert HuffPost interviewed said that low community transmission is a factor they’ll consider necessary before going maskless at work. None had an exact date of when that might be.

Syra Madad, an infectious disease epidemiologist who works for New York City’s hospital systems, noted that health care workers like herself are under different state and federal masking directives. But for people who don’t work in health care, ”given New York City is still experiencing high levels of community transmission, I would keep masking for a little while longer until case counts come down a bit more.“

When asked if he would be comfortable going maskless indoors at work where he lives, Mark Rupp, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, replied, “Currently today in Omaha, Nebraska? No.“