Some states are easing back their Covid-19 restrictions and lifting mask mandates.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday he has no plans to end the commonwealth's mask mandate, yet.
"To take everything off as they did in Texas and Mississippi strikes me as premature," Wolf said during the KDKA Radio Morning Show.
Wolf said he is moving in a measured pace as the numbers continue to head in the right direction.
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"It's sort of like running a marathon. You know, you've run all this distance and your within a hundred feet of the finish line. You don't stop, you run through the tape," Wolf said. "The finish line is in sight."
The Governor also addressed calls for police officers to be bumped up in the vaccine rollout as the state did with teachers last week.
On Monday, David Kennedy, president of the PA State Troopers Association told the KDKA Radio Morning Show he's frustrated police are still in Phase 1B, despite their contact with the public.
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"Since this pandemic, the state troopers have been last when it came to everything, from PPE now to the vaccination," he said. "It's very frustrating for us."
Wolf said his COVID-19 Vaccine Joint Task Force plans to discuss vaccinating more essential workers in meetings this week.
"We have on the schedule to decide if we take that further and obviously frontline folks like police and fire really are in our minds, at this point," he said.