COVID Mask Mandates Return Across US Hospitals

Masks are back in some locations in New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Washington state.

A hospital security guard wears a medical mask outside of Elmhurst Medical Center in Queens borough of New York City on April 15, 2020. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images

Hospitals in places across the United States have reimplemented mask mandates because of what officials say is an uptick in COVID-19 and other respiratory infections.

For example, the NYC Health + Hospitals—officially the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation that operates public hospitals and clinics in New York City—announced that mask mandates will be reimplemented at its hospitals.