(Massachusetts) The Baker Administration is reaching out to higher level educational institutions, such as UMass, to ask these institutions to relax their mask requirements. The Education Secretary James Peyser and Health and Human Services Director Marylou Sudders have both reached out to higher level institutions and asking them to consider relaxing mask requirements on campus. Both Peyser and Sudders have said that younger people are at lower risk of COVID-19. UMass Amherst continues to have COVID restrictions in place and askes everyone to wear a high filtration mask in public areas.