The Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity is calling on hospitals and healthcare providers to reinstate universal mask mandates in order to protect against COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses during the upcoming holiday season. The coalition, founded during the pandemic to protect vulnerable individuals, held a virtual press conference on Monday to urge health systems to reconsider their masking policies. Many hospitals lifted their mask mandates after the public health emergency ended in May. For more information, check out the Boston Business Journal’s coverage of this story.