The latest Public schools that continued to require students to wear masks reported fewer coronavirus infections, my colleague Donna St. George reports. The study was based on schools in the Boston area and found ending mask requirements was "associated with an additional 45 coronavirus cases per 1,000 students and staff members," St. George writes. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, adds to well-documented evidence supporting mask-wearing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people ages 2 and older wear masks indoors and in public spaces when they are in settings where infection rates are high. Reinfections with the coronavirus can still prove dangerous in unvaccinated, vaccinated and boosted people, Ariana Eunjung Cha of The Washington Post reports. Researchers analyzed the medical records of 5.8 million patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs. They found that nearly 41,000 people with reinfections "tended to have more complications in various organ systems both during their initial illness and longer term, and they were more likely to be diagnosed with long covid than people who did not get another infection," Cha writes. A growing body of research shows an increased risk of covid-related complications with every reinfection. Health experts worry that repeat infections can worsen long covid symptoms. Other important news Infants younger than 6 months, who are not eligible for the coronavirus vaccine, have high covid-related hospitalization rates compared with other children. Covid patients treated with the antiviral Paxlovid were less likely to suffer from long covid symptoms, my colleague Frances Stead Sellers reports. | 
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