Many of Michigan’s major health systems are preparing to make masking optional. For more than three years, Michigan’s major health systems have made masks mandatory due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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BRATTLEBORO — Starting Monday, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital will update its universal masking requirements for patients, visitors and staff and move to symptom-based masking. This change will be ...

Winter is here, and so, once more, are mask mandates. After last winter’s crushing Omicron spike, much of America did away with masking requirements. But with cases once again on the rise and other ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — After three years of caring for patients throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many of Michigan’s major health systems are making masking optional in most areas over the next week.