In 2020, with adult ICUs at risk of being overwhelmed, we wore masks and accepted restrictions. Now pediatric intensive care is at risk. Will leaders follow the evidence and tell us to mask up?
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We have reached a hinge point in the pandemic, and coming weeks pose a huge challenge for political leaders. The community has moved on from COVID. But COVID has not moved on from the community. It has dug in.
Word from The Hill: ‘Pandemic fatigue’ takes its toll of mandates and even the expert health advice
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
Despite the halt to the federal mask mandate for mass transit, people may still choose to protect themselves. For those who do, the type of mask and how well it fits matter.
Masks not only reduce your chance of getting COVID, they might stop you unknowingly transmitting the virus to colleagues, people in vulnerable groups or children who are yet to be vaccinated.
After the CDC changed course in late July, recommending universal masking indoors, Nevada became the first state to adopt a flexible masking policy that can quickly adjust to changing COVID-19 rates.
Governments in the west repeatedly failed the public when it came to masks.
A new survey found that dealing with emotional customers over issues such as wearing a mask is taking an increasing toll.
A constitutional law scholar says that the arguments made by anti-mask protesters that the Constitution protects their freedom to go maskless are just wrong.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Labor Policy Research Faculty, University of Oregon
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Virology and Immunology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Medicine, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
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Professor, Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and Director of the School of the Environment, University of Windsor
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Professor of Medicine, Epidemiologist, Physician, McMaster University
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