If you think that COVID risk is minimal, think again if you are in a Santa Cruz nursing home or a Santa Cruz hospital. During my recent visit to both places, one of them had five active cases, despite ...

Ms. Wick (“Keep mask mandate in health offices,” Our Readers’ Views, March 9) needs to pay attention to the daily, ever increasing medical studies that cite little to no effect that masks stop the ...

I truly appreciate the Mountain Xpress’ willingness to print letters of varying viewpoints. I found the recent letter “Masking for Pandemic Shows Care for Self, Others” [Jan. 24] quite disheartening.

Being allowed to take a break from wearing a mask in school seems to depend on where you go to school. The practice is a common one in many classrooms throughout New York, but a letter from Erie ...

Right now COVID is severely surging locally and across the country, and infection levels are high. Many readers will want to ignore the rest of this writing; we are exhausted by this unremitting ...

Something happened the last week in April. I went to my local hardware store to get some stuff. I noticed members of the staff were not wearing COVID masks. Most of the shoppers were guys, and only ...