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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndiana University will make masks optional on all of its campuses beginning March 4, the school announced Friday.
IU will no longer require masks in classrooms, residence halls, dining spaces, common areas or at athletics venues starting March 4, the university said in a news release it. Masks will still be worn in health care and research spaces.
The university cited a decline in COVID-19 cases at the university and throughout the state.
March 4 marks “the anticipated expiration of state and county public health orders,” it said.
Whether or not people continue to mask on campus will be personal decisions, said Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s chief health officer.
The university said it will continue to distribute KN95 and N95 masks.
“One-way masking — an individual’s decision to continue wearing a mask—is encouraged for anyone more comfortable wearing a mask in public spaces,” Carroll said.
Purdue University announced Wednesday that starting Friday, Feb. 18, masks would be optional on the West Lafayette campus except for instructional, research and health care settings and where contractually required.” Athletic venues will be among the spaces where masks are optional, Purdue said.
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IBJ, can you ask your fellow Democrats in Monroe Country to show their work? What is magical about March 4? I would be interested to know the Science! driving the decision. Cases are down. Just like last summer when cases were down but Monroe Co was the only place in the State requiring masks. Also, masks have been optional at IU revenue sports since the start of football season, but the Science! is different at events where Libs make money.
If you don’t like it, you can complain to administrators, un-enroll from IU, or quit your job at IU. If you don’t have an affiliation with IU, I don’t even know why you care.
Accusing a business newspaper of being the liberal media. Hysterical.
I bet you also hate the liberal WSJ. Oh Chucky always good for a laugh
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