The agency quietly issued an update right as we head into flu season.
, infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, agrees; he says the issue comes down to “preventing transmission of respiratory viruses from health care workers to patients.”place should keep universal face mask requirements in check, it’s health care settings.
“Masks do provide protection against COVID, RSV, and influenza,” Dr. Schaffner says. So, whether you’re immunocompromised or generally healthy and, it certainly doesn’t hurt to wear one in public, especially at the doctor’s office. After all, the importance of taking care of each other—and the simple steps we can take to do that—shouldn’t be a lesson we forget so soon.
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