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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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Lung cancer patient says hospital COVID protection ‘all wrong’ after testing positive

Published August 23, 2023

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Published by: CBC News
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By Nicole Williams

Masking and physical distancing policies at The Ottawa Hospital are “all wrong,” says a pneumonia and lung cancer patient who tested positive for COVID-19 while receiving care at the hospital.

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‘Worst nightmare’: Family calls for stricter mask policies after vulnerable Ottawa woman contracts COVID in hospital

Published August 18, 2023

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Published by: Ottawa Citizen
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By Elizabeth Payne

The family of an Ottawa woman already suffering from pneumonia and lung cancer is calling for stricter masking policies after she became infected with COVID while a patient at The Ottawa Hospital.

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Public health reset urgently required

Published August 18, 2023

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Published by: Kingston Whig Standard
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By Geoffrey P. Johnston

“A hard public health reset is urgently required in Canada to protect the vulnerable and prevent the healthcare system from being overwhelmed by long COVID patients. Policymakers should immediately implement a pandemic action plan to save lives in the coming weeks and months.”

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Hospital-acquired COVID infections worsened as the pandemic progressed, research finds

Published July 27, 2023

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Published by: Ottawa Citizen
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By Elizabeth Payne

The chances of becoming infected with COVID-19 while hospitalized increased as the pandemic progressed, according to recent Canadian research.

In fact, significantly more Canadians became infected with hospital-acquired COVID-19 during the fifth and sixth waves of the pandemic — the first two Omicron waves from late 2021 until the spring of 2022 — than during earlier waves, according to the study published in the journal JAMA Network Open. Researchers looked at cases of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 between March 2020 and May 2022.

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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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Hospitals must keep the masks

Published May 17, 2023

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Published by: Ottawa Citizen
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By Mike Buckthought

Re: Three Ottawa hospitals loosen masking requirements, still require them in clinical areas, May 15.

I’m really disappointed to hear that masks will no longer be required in certain public spaces at the Queensway Carleton, Montfort and Royal hospitals. Preventative medicine is best.

We need universal masking with N95 and FFP3 respirators to reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses.

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DoNoHarm BC protests the removal of mandatory masks in healthcare settings

Published May 15, 2023

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Published by: The Peak
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By Michelle Young

All COVID-19 patients (including vaccinated adults and children) are potentially at risk of long-term health damage or death, though some groups are disproportionately affected. These risks multiply with each reinfection.

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DoNoHarm BC to stage a die-in protesting end of hospital mask mandate

Published April 27, 2023

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Published by: The Georgia Straight
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By V. S. Wells

Getting rid of masking means I can’t safely get the care I need. I need regular follow-up care, and because I’m immunocompromised, getting Covid in hospital is a massive risk… Right now, one of my greatest health risks is accessing medical care.

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Opinion: Why hospitals should keep mandatory masking

Published April 26, 2023

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Published by: Edmonton Journal
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By Sanjiv K. Gandhi, Cameron Morhaliek, Joe Vipond

Masks unequivocally mitigate the spread of airborne pathogens. When the havoc being wreaked by COVID is still rampant, it is dumbfounding why universal mandatory masking would be removed in health-care settings — especially acute-care hospitals filled with the vulnerable sick, the immunocompromised, and those with significant pre-existing illness.

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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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1,619 people likely caught COVID-19 in B.C. hospitals and 274 of them have died

Published November 25, 2021

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Published by: CTV News
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By Penny Daflos

For the first time, B.C.’s Ministry of Health has provided information about people who likely caught COVID-19 after going to acute care settings for medical treatment or work, with 1,619 getting the virus and 274 of them dying.

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Upgrading PPE for staff working on COVID-19 wards cut hospital-acquired infections dramatically

Published June 29, 2021

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Published by: University of Cambridge
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“Once FFP3 respirators were introduced, the number of cases attributed to exposure on COVID-19 wards dropped dramatically – in fact, our model suggests that FFP3 respirators may have cut ward-based infection to zero.”

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Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff

Published June 29, 2021

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Published by: The Guardian
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By Nicola Davis, Denis Campbell

Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’

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