OPINION: Going to the ER? For everyone's sake, wear a face mask | Opinion | theoutlookonline.com

Guest opinion writer Dennis Kan urges anyone visiting an emergency room or urgent care office to wear a face mask, if not for their own protection, then for the protection of other people who might already be immunocompromised.

In the Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Care (UC) waiting rooms, people impatiently wait to see the provider. In the corner of your eye, you see someone sitting slouched over and wearing a mask. While on the other side of the room, someone coughs their lungs out without a mask.

In your head, you wonder, do they have COVID? Flu? The plague?

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