Helping you find Covid-safe providers and services because you shouldn't have to compromise your health.
We regularly hear outrageous stories like this one (reprinted with permission): “Had a telehealth today and was told to come by curbside for PCR test, which I just did. The person who took my curbside test was maskless. I asked her to put on a mask and she refused. I stated I am high risk and she still refused! This is a staff member at the doctor’s office refusing to mask to swab me for Covid when her job is literally to swab people all day, and yet refusing to mask around high risk patients.”
Here’s how to still safely wear a mask to protect your health if your state has a mask ban. In June of 2024 North Carolina passed it’s mask ban. Other states and cities are now considering mask bans, such as New York and Chicago. In addition, several states have indoor mask bans, including Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Florida, Texas, Arkansas and Arizona, although in some of those states they are not being enforced.
At the start of the Covid pandemic, in 2020, the Federal government instituted many “regulatory flexibilities” to the provision of healthcare in the United States. Several of these regulatory flexibilities included both allowing for telehealth (telemedicine), and having telehealth covered by insurance, including Medicare. If you have private or employer-provided insurance, those policies largely took their direction as to whether to cover telehealth from the Federal example. But these regulatory flexibilities expire at the end of 2024!
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