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Opinion: Everyone should know the dangers of long covid

"Given these findings, I am confused as to why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and our local public health authorities in Montgomery County and elsewhere in Maryland are not widely sharing information about the risks of long covid, encouraging us to prevent every possible infection and mandating — or at the very least encouraging — universal masking protections in health-care settings."

Sara Anderson, Chevy Chase

Opinion: For some in Maryland, covid is still real

"I’d like to tell you what life looks like for the high-risk people organizing with COVID Safe Maryland, an all-volunteer group that has come together to advocate for covid safety in our area, especially in health care."

Mark Stewart, Silver Spring

Immunocompromised, chronically ill people object to Baltimore hospitals’ decisions to drop masking

"If you experience a heart attack or a stroke or any other crisis that puts you in the hospital, without universal masking in place, you may catch COVID at the precise moment that your body is most vulnerable."

Jennifer Kunze, Baltimore

Response: Hospitals should have kept mask mandates

"On April 24, 2023, Johns Hopkins Medicine became the last hospital system in Maryland to end its mask mandate for employees, patients and visitors (”Johns Hopkins ends mask mandate at medical facilities,” April 24). That leaves all Maryland hospitals in the position of inviting, if not guaranteeing, increases in hospital-acquired infections and, probably, unnecessary deaths."

Edmund Weisberg, Baltimore

Opinion: Johns Hopkins should keep requiring masks

"Even without the coronavirus, wearing masks to blunt the transmission of dangerous microbes, which are abundant in hospitals and other centers of care, is sound health policy. Evidence has shown that multiple airborne infections were diminished during the height of pandemic mask-wearing."

Edmund Weisberg, Baltimore

Opinion: Covid isn’t over, no matter how much we want it to be

"My view of living in a community includes caring about our neighbors who are immunocompromised and about our older family members, both of whom are at great risk if they catch the coronavirus."

Susan Burket, Potomac

Response: Maryland health care facilities should not drop mask mandates

"The pandemic is far from over. Even amid the increasing barriers to accessing PCR testing, every county in Maryland with one exception currently reports moderate or substantial community transmission levels. We must maintain universal masking in health care settings in Maryland."

Rosa Greenberg, Silver Spring

Opinion: Covid hospitalizations don’t account for long covid

"Not only do experts disagree on whether we are over- or undercounting covid-19 deaths, but instructing people to use those statistics to make decisions about their own behavior completely ignores the very real risk of long covid."

Allison Burket, Bladensburg