A top Oregon workforce official is proposing to keep a face mask requirement in perpetuity.

Michael Wood, the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration head, proposed the idea last week during a public hearing on the matter. It would keep face masks the law until they are “no longer necessary to address the effects of the pandemic in the workplace.”

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