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'COVID-19 is not behind us': Doctors, nurses groups urge Americans to wear masks in open letter
WASHINGTON - The leading associations for doctors, nurses and the health care industry at large together issued an open letter on Monday urging Americans to wear a mask and practice social distancing amid an uptick in confirmed coronavirus cases across the country.“Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have urged the American people to protect themselves, their neighbors and their loved ones amidst the worst global health crisis in generations,” the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association wrote in the letter dated July 6.After the number of cases and deaths began to decline following widespread stay-at-home orders enacted this spring, states began to hastily reopen their