A maskless step toward normalcy

Claudia Chiappa

04/14/2023

Leo Carney — MANY HOSPITALS in Rhode Island are making masks optional for patients and staff for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, but is it too soon? / AP FILE PHOTO/ROGELIO V. SOLIS

As hospitals across the state make masks optional for patients and staff for the first time in three years, health care leaders feel confident this is a step on the road back to normalcy despite some lingering hesitancy among providers. Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System both made masking optional starting at the

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