Here’s Where COVID Mask Mandates Are Coming Back Across the US

More hospitals have opted to reimpose mask mandates in recent days.

A health care worker in a file photo. Mark Felix/AFP /AFP via Getty Images

Some hospitals and local governments have opted to reimpose mask mandates at health care facilities as officials have cited a rise in various respiratory illnesses such as the flu and COVID-19.

The mandates have been imposed in the past week or so in New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Washington state, and more.

Pennsylvania

Over the past weekend, four hospital systems implemented masking requirements in and around the Philadelphia area. Visitors and staff at Cooper University Health Care facilities have to wear face coverings in examination rooms and patient rooms starting Jan. 5.