FAQs about COVID-19

Starting Saturday, March 5, the University at Buffalo will make masks optional on its campuses in most settings:

• Students, faculty, staff and visitors, regardless of vaccination status, will no longer be required to wear masks in most settings, indoors or outdoors. 
• Anyone who wishes to continue wearing a mask in a classroom, office or any other campus space is encouraged to do so. 
• In keeping with state and federal regulations, masks will continue to be mandatory for everyone aboard UB buses and shuttles and in clinical health care settings (e.g. UB Health Services, Dental School facilities, on-campus testing sites) on campus.
  
• UB faculty, staff and students who work or learn at hospitals, nursing homes, clinics or diagnostic and treatment centers off campus must continue to comply with any site-specific regulations in place.
• All campus community members who have regular on-campus contact and are not up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations must continue to participate in weekly surveillance testing, including those with an approved medical or religious exemption.
  

Remember: There are many reasons that individuals may continue to wear a mask, including those who are:

• Unvaccinated 
• Immunocompromised
• Living with someone at higher risk

Please be kind and respectful toward others in our UB community.

Faculty and academic support staff, see Guidance for faculty and academic support staff.