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Even after the expiration of the U.S. public health emergency declaration and with many Americans moving away from pandemic precautions, masks continue to offer some protection, the study found.
Now is not the time to do away with masks in healthcare settings, two infectious disease physicians wrote in a commentary published May 16 in Annals of Internal Medicine, an indication the masking debate will persist far beyond the PHE s expiration.