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Arizonans can now receive workers comp benefits for getting Covid-19 on the job

Published September 23, 2023

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Published by: KVOA
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By Gabrielle Parish

In a groundbreaking development, Arizonans can now apply for worker’s compensation if they contract COVID-19 while on the job. This landmark decision stems from a widow’s determined fight to secure worker’s compensation following her husband’s tragic demise due to COVID-19.

Court documents unequivocally state that if someone contracts COVID-19 at their workplace, they are entitled to file for worker’s compensation. An essential detail to note is that if a worker succumbs to the virus, their next of kin will receive financial support.

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Ontario government oversight of long-term care homes ‘largely collapsed’ during pandemic, ombudsman finds

Published September 7, 2023

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Published by: CTV News
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By Codi Wilson

What we uncovered was an oversight system that was strained before the pandemic, and proved to be wholly incapable and unprepared to handle the additional stresses posed by COVID-19.

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Topic: hospital-acquired infectionsView all posts for the topic: hospital-acquired infections

Hospitals are killing patients because they don’t feel like doing infection control

Published August 23, 2023

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Published by: The Gauntlet
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By Julia Doubleday

“Disabled, sick, immunocompromised and vulnerable people seeking care at a hospital, have the right not to be exposed to a virus that has killed 1.1 million Americans in 3.5 years. They have the right to seek care without having to fear that their care team will quite literally kill them with a preventable illness. Practitioners, on the other hand, have no right to compare the irritation of having to wear a mask at work with the moral injury of infecting vulnerable people who then go on to die at high rates.”

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Topic: universal maskingView all posts for the topic: universal masking

Everyone Has The Right to Mask

Published August 20, 2023

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Published by: OK Doomer
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By Jessica Wildfire

Dozens of studies have shown that not only do N95 masks work on an individual level, but they lower transmission when people actually follow guidelines. Even the strongest critics of mask policies are forced to admit that masks themselves are effective.

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A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers

Published July 20, 2023

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Published by: Bill of Health - Harvard University
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By Katherine A. Macfarlane

In May 2023, Mass General Brigham instructed its patients that they “cannot ask staff members to wear a mask because our policies no longer require it.”

Following patient protests, the hospital updated its policies with an imperfect fix, announcing that “patients can ask, but providers determine when and if masking in a particular situation is clinically necessary.”

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Masks are out at In-N-Out after burger chain bans employees from wearing them in 5 states

Published July 19, 2023

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Published by: The Associatad Press
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By Wyatte Grantham-Philips

The In-N-Out burger chain will bar employees in five states from wearing masks unless they have a doctor’s note, according to internal company emails leaked on social media.

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Topic: universal maskingView all posts for the topic: universal masking

Calgary doctor to challenge AHS mask policy change in court

Published June 16, 2023

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Published by: Global News
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By Adam Toy

You can’t be putting the responsibility for basic measures to protect people with disabilities and chronic disease… on them when a very minor, reasonable, easy-to-do accommodation can be just kept in place.

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Topic: human rightsView all posts for the topic: human rights

End of health-care mask mandates puts vulnerable at risk: B.C. human rights commissioner

Published April 12, 2023

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Published by: Vancouver Sun
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By Joseph Ruttle

B.C.’s human rights commissioner is criticizing provincial health officials for ending mask mandates in health-care settings, saying it puts the most vulnerable and marginalized people at risk.

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Topic: long COVIDView all posts for the topic: long COVID

Long COVID Has Never Been Taken Seriously. Here’s Where It Left Us

Published January 26, 2023

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Published by: The Tyee
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By Sophie Harrison

Long COVID turned my life upside down. Amidst all the loss I’ve experienced, there’s been the cognitive dissonance of watching most of the rest of the world try to return to normal, without me in it. And seemingly unaware of the reality that COVID-19 is still out there, resulting in long-term chronic illness for a significant share of people infected.

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Topic: anti-vaxxersView all posts for the topic: anti-vaxxers

How COVID Truthers Breathed New Life Into an Antisemitic Symbol

Published November 29, 2022

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Published by: Vice
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By Tim Hume

The widespread appropriation by COVID truthers of the yellow star that the Nazis forced Jews to wear is a sign that public displays of antisemitism have become normalised in modern Germany to an unthinkable degree, experts say.

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Topic: human rightsView all posts for the topic: human rights

Human rights complaint filed against B.C. health-care authority over N95 respirator ban

Published January 27, 2022

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Published by: Radio Canada International
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By Akshay Kulkarni

A class complaint has been filed at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against a regional health-care authority over their policy prohibiting hospital patients and visitors from using N95 respirators.

The complaint was filed by Vancouver resident Lena Patsa on Wednesday against Fraser Health, the province’s largest health-care authority by population.

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Almonte hospital workers file grievance to access N95 masks

Published August 30, 2020

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Published by: Ottawa Citizen
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By Andrew Duffy

One of the country’s top arbitrators has been asked to settle a pandemic-related grievance filed by Almonte General Hospital health care workers, who want N95 respirators made available to them.

The hospital now issues N95 masks only to staff involved in aerosol-generating medical procedures, such as intubations.

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