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Public health advocates are calling for hospitals, doctors, and other health providers to adopt masking policies, as health care mask mandates were lifted with the end of the state's COVID-19 public health emergency on Thursday.
The move represents a broad policy shift to managing COVID less as a crisis and more as a routine health issue, more than three years since the start of the pandemic.
Some expressed concern for those with compromised immune systems and other health conditions.
Mass. Medical Society President Ted Calianos said survey results 'not wholly surprising nor inconsistent with what is happening across the country.'
About 63% of female doctors who participated in the survey showed symptoms of burnout.