Mayo Clinic to stop requiring masks in buildings
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Starting next week, Mayo Clinic will no longer require masks for patients and staff in certain areas of the campus.
Hubbard Broadcasting affiliate KAAL-TV reports that, on April 10, the clinic will make the change that they say is the result of consistently lower rates of hospitalizations, mortality and infection of COVID-19 in Mayo Clinic buildings.
“In line with Mayo Clinic’s commitment to patient care, Mayo Clinic will continue to require wearing a face mask in high-risk patient settings,” a press release said. “High-risk immunocompromised patients will be notified to wear a mask while they are at Mayo Clinic.”
Those who want to continue wearing masks at Mayo Clinic are free to do so.