CONWAY — As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in the Mount Washington Valley and across New Hampshire, Memorial Hospital has reinstituted masking and other protocols and restarted its drive-thru testing operations.
“We’re back to full masking. We’re back to our meeting restrictions. We’re back to Zooms. We are back in a COVID posture here at the hospital," said Memorial Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Will Owen at a weekly community meeting the hospital held last Friday to update the community and answer questions about the pandemic.
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