Masks

Beginning Thursday all staff members providing direct patient care at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington will be required to wear masks.

With current data showing decreasing levels of infection and transmission in the area, the hospital has decided to end mandatory masking.

The University of Vermont Health Network-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh has returned to mandatory masking.

The medical center in Plattsburgh has reinstated a requirement that visitors and patients wear masks.

The Southern Berkshire Regional School District has sent out a warning that COVID-19 rates are sharply increasing among faculty and staff.

The Albany County Department of Health is once again advising indoor mask-wearing as guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control show Albany County as "high" in both community level and transmission rate of COVID-19.

Vermont Governor Phil Scott outlined measures the state will take to stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

New York lifted the statewide mask requirement for schools on Wednesday. But many colleges are keeping mask mandates in place for now.

With COVID-19 cases on the decline, New York’s school mask mandate will end on Wednesday.

A Siena College poll finds that the majority of New Yorkers support Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to continue the COVID-19 mask mandate for school children until early March. But the data shows that reaction to policies over COVID-related restrictions is more complicated than that.