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"Transmissions do not take place between solitary individuals going for a walk, transiently passing each other on the street, a hiking trail, or a jogging track," Dr. Paul Sax of Brigham and Women’s Hospital said. (Shutterstock)
MASSACHUSETTS — A prominent doctor is suggesting Massachusetts and communities that have mandated face coverings in outdoor spaces reconsider those rules.
"Transmissions do not take place between solitary individuals going for a walk, transiently passing each other on the street, a hiking trail, or a jogging track. That biker who whizzes by without a mask poses no danger to us, at least from a respiratory virus perspective," Dr. Paul Sax, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital, wrote in a blog post for the New England Journal of Medicine Monday.