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Some hospitals have loosened COVID restrictions, others have not. The CDC still recommends against in-person visits for infected patients.

Some hospitals have loosened COVID restrictions, others have not. The CDC still recommends against in-person visits for infected patients.

Some hospitals have loosened COVID restrictions, others have not. The CDC still recommends against in-person visits for infected patients.

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Some hospitals have loosened COVID restrictions, others have not. The CDC still recommends against in-person visits for infected patients.

A year and a half into a pandemic that has killed 700,000 people in the U.S., hospitals in at least a half-dozen states have loosened restrictions governing visits to covid patients. Others, however, are standing firm, backed by studies and industry groups that indicate such policies have been crucial to keeping hospital-acquired infections low.

MIAMI (AP) — Banned from the Florida hospital room where her mother lay dying of COVID-19, Jayden Arbelaez pitched an idea to construction employees working nearby. “Is there any way that I could get there?” Arbelaez asked them, pointing to a small third-story window of the hospital in Jacksonville. The workers gave the 17-year-old a yellow vest, boots, a helmet and a ladder

A year and a half into a pandemic that has killed 700,000 people in the U.S., hospitals in at least a half-dozen states have loosened restrictions governing visits to covid patients. Others, however, are standing firm, backed by studies and industry groups that indicate such policies have been crucial to keeping hospital-acquired infections low.

MIAMI — Banned from the Florida hospital room where her mother lay dying of COVID-19, Jayden Arbelaez pitched an idea to construction employees working nearby. “Is there any way that I could get there?” Arbelaez asked them, pointing to a small...

Some hospitals have loosened COVID restrictions, others have not. The CDC still recommends against in-person visits for infected patients.