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Workers and attendees at these locations are now required to wear masks upon entry. ... the CDC reported that as of 23 August the BA.2.86 variant is the more infectious of the two, and wrote that ...
If you absolutely can’t stay home while ill, be sure to wear a mask, says Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr., medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID).
As the U.S. faces a surge of new COVID cases due to the Delta variant, health officials are now recommending that Americans mask up again.
A public service announcement from the Government of California encouraging people to wear masks to "slow the spread". In late March 2020, some government officials began to focus on the wearing of masks to help prevent transmission of COVID-19 as opposed to protecting the wearer; former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated in a report that face masks would be "most effective" at slowing its ...
During the 2021-2022 school year, only 18 states followed CDC recommendations for mask-wearing in class. When the CDC lifted its masking guidelines in February of 2022, states like Massachusetts ...
The CDC said healthcare personnel should wear a NIOSH-approved N95 (or equivalent or higher-level) respirator or a face mask (if a respirator is not available) with a face shield or goggles as part of their personal protective equipment, while patients with suspected or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection should wear a face mask or cloth face ...
The CDC updated its mask guidance, recommending everyone, whether vaccinated or not, wear a mask indoors in places where the coronavirus is spreading widely.
Transmission-based precautions are infection-control precautions in health care, in addition to the so-called "standard precautions". They are the latest routine infection prevention and control practices applied for patients who are known or suspected to be infected or colonized with infectious agents, including certain epidemiologically important pathogens, which require additional control ...