A handful of places across the U.S. are reintroducing mask mandates following an uptick in COVID-19 infections.
"Effective immediately, Morris Brown College has reinstated its COVID-19 mask mandate due to reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center," the post reads, listing seven policies in place for a two-week period.
In addition to wearing masks and following protocol for quarantine, contact tracing, and symptom monitoring, the college is requiring students to practice"physical distancing" and follow guidelines for gathering sizes.3, introduced mandatory masking once again at both of its hospitals. "Effective immediately, mandatory masking is required by all staff, visitors, and patients in clinical areas of Upstate University Hospital, Upstate Community Hospital, and ambulatory clinical spaces," a memo sent to staff and obtained by Syracuse.com reads."Clinical areas are defined as any location patients gather, wait, transport through, or receive care. Masking is strongly recommended in all non-clinical areas.
He continued,"We are nowhere near where we were at our busiest point but we have more patients now than we did a month ago. Fortunately, we are well within our capacity to care for all of our patients."
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