California’s Bay Area reinstates healthcare mask mandates – One America News Network
OAN Staff Blake Wolf
11:44 AM – Monday, October 14, 2024
Multiple California Bay Area counties have announced their intention to require face masks for the flu season as winter approaches.
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The health orders require face masks to be worn in health care facilities like hospitals and long-term care facilities, and dialysis centers starting on November 1st.
The mandate is also expected to last until March or November of next year, and was reportedly put in place in an attempt to curb the spread of viral diseases like the flu and COVID-19, which some doctors claim has resurfaced during the fall season.
The mandate is only required for healthcare workers, with the exception of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, which also require visitors, including small children, to mask up when inside the facilities as well.
Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Napa county is also included in the recent health orders.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, mask mandates have been highly scrutinized, and although the new mandates are far less restrictive, critics are still voicing their opposition to the masking requirements.
“Mask mandates are making a comeback in California,” announced Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.), who is running against his Democrat counterpart, Jessica Morse. “My opponent, a Newsom staffer, supports toddler masking. America’s leading masker of 2-year-olds, Xavier Becerra, is plotting a run for governor. We must elect the right people to assure history doesn’t repeat itself.”
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