{"id":50476,"date":"2023-10-03T09:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=50476"},"modified":"2023-10-03T09:26:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:26:33","slug":"mask-mandates-making-a-comeback-but-are-they-really-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/03\/mask-mandates-making-a-comeback-but-are-they-really-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask mandates making a comeback, but are they really needed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31193\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/blue-mask-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/blue-mask-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/blue-mask-770x556.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/blue-mask-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/blue-mask-500x361.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/blue-mask-360x260.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/blue-mask.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than nine million Americans now live in an area where mask mandates have returned to local hospitals \u2014 amid concerns more health facilities could bring back the measures. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/mask-mandates-making-a-comeback-but-are-they-really-needed\/ar-AA1hAI82?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=2c5ab92690a34c43acca383052d86fc2&amp;ei=96\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than nine million Americans now live in an area where mask mandates have returned to local hospitals \u2014 amid concerns more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/n95-mask-and-covid-19.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50477,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50476\/revisions\/50477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}