The Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity is urging hospitals and other healthcare providers to restore universal mask mandates in order to protect against COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses as the holiday season approaches.
Established during the pandemic to safeguard those particularly at risk of contracting COVID, the organization recently conducted a virtual press conference to encourage health systems to reconsider their masking policies. Many hospitals had discontinued mask mandates after the public health emergency ended in May.
Read more about this issue in the Boston Business Journal.