By using our website you agree to our use of cookies as set out in our Privacy Policy. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. Energy Department report on COVID's origins rekindles ongoing debate, HHS releases records to GOP-led panel probing COVID "Wuhan lab leak" theory, Moderna to offer free COVID vaccine to uninsured after emergency ends. Learn more: Read the Wisconsin health department's mask guidance. Instead, after Friday's revisions, the agency now has exceptions for where masking "remains recommended." The new guidance comes as the U.S. has recorded a weeks-long slowdown in the pace of COVID-19 hospitalizations and nursing home infections in most parts of the country. Tim Walz ended the states general mask mandate May 14, 2021. The state's mask mandate became a "mask advisory" April 6, 2021. Municipal mask mandates in Birmingham and Montgomery expired in May 2021. The federal government's nationwide mask order for public transit, commercial flights and transportation hubs such as airports and train stations was struck down by a federal judge April 18. In addition, masking may be required pursuant to OR-OSHA's rule on exceptional risk (OAR 437-001-0744) for those situations covered . GNYHA members include Crouse Health, St. Josephs and the Syracuse VA Medical Center. A state law barring local governments from imposing mask orders, enacted in April 2021, was struck down by an Arkansas judge later that year. Masking is still required in health care and long-term care facilities and recommended in indoor settings when the vaccination status of others present cannot be verified. Then-Gov. State Medical Board Of Ohio Proposes New Telehealth Rules In Response To HB 122, The Future Of Health Care Reform Is Top Of Governor Hochul's State Of The State Address, COVID-19: Medical Liability For Expanded Scope Of Services, NLRB Reverses Trump-Era Rules On Severance Agreements, The EEOC Targets Construction Industry For Heightened Enforcement. [CDATA[/* >