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So, here's my experience from Texas. My county currently has 250 confirmed cases, but we are one county away from Houston. These policies have been in place for 3-4 weeks now, from back when we had less than `100 confirmed cases in my county.
My OB office is closed to all routine patients - only emergency and OB patients are being seen.
You are asked screening questions at the door of the building and your temperature is taken, then you are given a wrist band indicating that you have been screened (this building is directly connected to the hospital, so I believe that is why).
In the office, all staff is wearing masks. There is no sign-in (so no pen to touch) and all of the chairs are spaced 6' apart. All doors (except door to practice and bathroom door) were opened for me, so I didn't touch anything inside the practice except the bathroom door. I then washed my hands and used a paper towel to reopen that door.

I also wore a (home made) mask and here's why:
1. anyone can be a carrier and not know it. My godmother contracted Covid (and later died) from a seemingly healthy family member with no known risk factors.
2. social norms! If I wear a mask, it makes everyone else feel better about wearing masks, and it's other people wearing masks that will end up protecting me.

My county only has 17 positives. I will absolutely be wearing a mask to my next appointment. One of my friends did her glucose test and she picked up the glucose in advance so that she could drink and walk into the office just in time to get her blood drawn. I didn't even sit down in the waiting room last time, no way I would want to sit there for an hour, especially in a family med office. We are also screened at the building entrance, given a mask if we don't have one and required to use hand sanitizer.

I’d wear a mask anywhere you have to go out of the house for sure (not like on a walk, but the store, doctor’s, etc).