Opinion | The Checkup with Dr. Wen: A Middle Ground on Masking in Healthcare Facilities

Comment on this storyComment You are reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter about coping with covid-19 and other public health challenges. Click here to receive the full newsletter in your inboxincluding answers to readers’ questions and a summary of new scientific research. Should hospitals and other healthcare settings maintain mask requirements, even if they have long been abandoned in virtually all other settings? This is a very controversial issue. Some leading experts have argued that the disadvantages of hospital masking mandates outweigh the benefits, while others argue for…

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