They call the Biden administration’s decision to roll back mask recommendations shortsighted and dangerous, inconsiderate of those who don’t want to risk potential disability or death from an infection. They, too, must go to grocery stores, schools, work and doctor appointments. Several advocacy groups raised these concerns in recent meetings with the Biden administration but have grown frustrated by the tenor of the discussions.

“The pandemic is not over,” said Elena Hung, co-founder of Little Lobbyists, an advocacy group for chronically ill and disabled children. “What the CDC is doing is leaving out immunocompromised and disabled people.”

Hung, whose 7-year-old daughter needs a kidney transplant, met with officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year and asked the agency to continue mask requirements, which help protect people like her immunocompromised daughter.

When she later heard that the CDC would not do so, “it felt like a betrayal,” she said.