Mass General Brigham, the largest health system in MA, is reinstating masking requirements on Jan 2. It joins Boston Medical Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Lahey Health & other MA hospitals. Why was this not done weeks ago at the *start* of the COVID surge?

I never stopped wearing masks indoors. Saves a lot of grief.

because americans need to fuck around to find out.

No hospital should have ever *dropped* those requirements. It's health care, ffs.

I "liked" seeing the local health people posting on the 26th about protecting friends and family by getting vaccinated. 🙄 You know, something they should've been hammering a month or two earlier.

It’s done right after the holiday because everyone expects a huge surge from holiday gatherings. It’s planned in advance. A lot of health systems do the same.

Nice ( well not that it took this but )

PeepeelaPew wrote: ↑ daryl wrote: ↑we were generally amongst those at the forefront in cancer research :lol: You were a graduate level lab technician. www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/p ... ask-policy I'd hate for you to be spreading lies and disinformation.

Seriously. I was there December 13 as a patient. *Nobody* was masking except my primary care physician, and she's an outlier.

I was at a cancer center last week. Maybe 10% masking would be a generous estimate.

Does this include Children’s /do you know? Spent 3 months there this fall and rare to see anyone masking even in ICU (except us)