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CDC Updates Masking Guidelines for Health Care Facilities

The CDC has updated its masking guidelines, recommending that health care facilities use a risk-based assessment, stakeholder input, and local metrics to determine how and when to require universal masking to prevent COVID-19 transmission. The universal masking guidelines are no longer tied to the CDC’s community transmission metric, as of this week's end of the public health emergency. The revised infection prevention guidelines continue to recommend universal masking under specific circumstances, including in work units or areas of a facility experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak.

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