Washington state also announced it will drop its mask mandate for health care facilities on the same date. Washington is also dropping the mask requirement for correctional facilities.
Health care facilities include “hospitals, mobile clinics, ambulances, outpatients facilities, dental offices, urgent care centers, counseling offices, school-based health centers, complementary and alternative medicine locations,” OHA reports.
The requirement started August 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
OHA said it’s setting the date to lift the mask mandate a month out to give “the health care system, local public health authorities and other health partners time to prepare for the change, including adjusting policies, training and procedures that
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