We may have learned to live with the coronavirus and its many offshoots, but that doesn’t mean it can be written off as just another infectious nuisance. Recent masking updates at our state’s hospitals indicate that COVID, though somewhat neutralized, hasn’t released its grip entirely.
As COVID-19 cases appear to be on the rise, Lowell General Hospital is reinstating its masking requirement for employees to mitigate the spread going into the peak months for transmissible diseases.