Hospitals in several US states are reimposing mask mandates, citing rising Covid-19, flu, norovirus and RSV infection rates as justification.
Pandemic-era face coverings and social distancing are now required at some hospitals in California, New Jersey, New York, Indiana and Illinois, with one of Wisconsin’s largest hospital networks recently joining the list.
The Daily Mail reports:
Wisconsin’s Aurora Health Care system — which treats 1.2 million patients a year — is among the latest to bring back mask mandates for its units.
It says that visitors will now need to mask up ‘when in contact with patients or in congregate areas, including patient rooms and other areas designated by signage’.
It follows hospital systems in other states like New Jersey, where its largest hospital system RWJBarnabas Health — which sees three million patients a year — has also reinstated its mask mandate.
In guidance posted online, the hospital system also said that visitors would now be expected to ‘wear an appropriate face mask’ and ‘maintain physical distance’.
It added: ‘We will offer you a new mask for source control or may ask you to replace your own mask with a hospital-supplied mask.’
The Rush University Medical Center, Rush Copley Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital in Illinois, have also all started requiring face masks for staff and visitors.
And In Indiana, Union Health has asked visitors to wear face masks due to an uptick in respiratory viruses.
Doctors spoken to by The Mail noted the country is currently seeing an uptick in flu, Covid, norovirus and RSV cases – dubbed a “quad-emic.”
“What we are seeing now is an increasing amount of respiratory disease and norovirus that is really all over the US,” noted Dr. Joseph Bresee, associate director of Global Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Influenza Division in Atlanta.
“It is what we see most years and we will probably see increasing amounts over the next few weeks as well.”
He added: “[Cases] will go up as people get back on planes and travel for this holiday season. Any airplane right now certainly has people with viruses on board… And we do tend to see big peaks just after the winter holidays as people have traveled, got infected, and then gone back to school.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) declared his state would not be bringing back mask mandates.
The pandemic-era restrictions are attempting to make a return as President-elect Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated in less than three weeks.
Meanwhile, Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has argued face masks are ineffective at stopping disease infection and transmission, and pledged throughout his presidential campaign not to impose mask mandates.
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