NEW YORK (WRGB) — As of Wednesday, the New York State Department of Health no longer requires health care workers without the influenza vaccine to wear a mask. Health Commissioner Dr. James ...

BOSTON (State House News Service) – As the state’s public health emergency inches closer to its expiration next month, a group of public health advocates, health care workers and patients is ...

Health Masks forever? Here’s why one group is pushing to keep them required in health care settings. Massachusetts's COVID-19 public health emergency runs out on May 11, ending state masking ...

Researchers determined whether medical masks were non-inferior to N95 respirators in preventing a SARS-CoV-2)infection in healthcare workers.

Federal researchers tracked self-reported mental health symptoms among more than a thousand adult workers in 2018 and 2022, including 226 health care workers in 2018 and 325 in 2022.

State health officials declared Wednesday that flu is prevalent across New York and ordered health care workers who are not vaccinated against the infectious disease to wear masks. The declaration ...

The mask order applies to staff at all health care facilities in the county, including hospitals, dialysis centers, and skilled nursing facilities. The order will remain in place through April 30.

With the prevalence of viral respiratory diseases expected to rise in the coming months, the Napa County Health and Human Services Agency has ordered that masks be worn at local health care ...

Napa County’s health department will require face masks for workers at local health care facilities starting Nov. 1, ahead of an expected seasonal rise in infectious diseases over the winter.

Four more health-care workers who tended to a person hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu have revealed that they had respiratory symptoms after their exposures, according to the US Centers for Disease ...