The Nevada Gaming Control Board announced Friday that it was removing the mask mandate that had been in place since the state casino market reopened last July.
The shift in state policy came shortly after the Centers for Disease Control announced that it was safe for vaccinated people to take off their mask in almost all places. The agency also said unvaccinated people should continue to wear face covers.
Most casinos follow the same approach.
According to the local Fox , an affiliate company, Wynn Resorts became the first casino operator to change its follow-up policy CDC. At both casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, Encore and Wynn Las Vegas, vaccinated guests will no longer need to wear a mask. Within hours, MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment followed suit, which means that as soon as these three companies made the change, almost the entire Las Vegas Strip would abide by the policy. Cosmopolitan, Venetian and Palazzo have also made changes.
Properties will benefit from an honor system and will not force guests without masks to prove their immunization status. NGCB does not prohibit casinos from creating its customers to prove that they have been vaccinated, however it would be a cumbersome process for them to do so.
Each company has a different approach to what it allows its employees. MGM it currently employs masked workers, while other properties have allowed vaccinated workers to work without covering their faces.
With the removal of the masks after the removal of the plexiglass partitions, the poker rooms look as close to normal as they have been since the US pandemic in March 2020.