Latoya Hawkins wears a mask as her 4-month-old daughter is checked at MLK Community Hospital in January. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times) In a world emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and medical practices have been the last bastions of mandatory masking. But new research finds that in communities where pandemic precautions have largely been abandoned, … Continue reading Without further pandemic precautions, hospital mask rules did not stop spread of COVID, study finds