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Ontario: Keep masks in healthcare!Line drawing of an N95 respirator, accompanied by the text: Keep masks in healthcare #CovidIsNotOver
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Ontario: Keep masks in healthcare!

Published November 6, 2023

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📣 Let hospital CEOs and MPPs know you want universal masking with respirators in Ontario hospitals

✉️ Send letters to voice your support for universal masking with respirators in hospitals. You can use your own email software to send the letters.

Why take action? SARS-CoV-2 is an airborne, level 3 pathogen. We need universal masking with respirators to prevent COVID-induced health issues, including long COVID, cognitive issues, and cardiovascular diseases.

Please take a moment to voice your support for universal masking with respirators in Ontario hospitals!

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AHS mask mandate takes effect at Drumheller health centre

Published November 3, 2023

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Published by: Calgary Herald
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By Hiren Mansukhani

The Drumheller Health Centre has become the first acute-care facility in southern Alberta to adopt AHS masking rules to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The mandate, posted by Alberta Health Services on Friday, requires all patients, visitors, and medical and non-medical staff to wear masks in areas where patients are cared for, including the long-term care and supportive living wings of the hospital, as well as the Community Cancer Centre.

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Horizon tightens mask rules again, starting Monday

Published October 26, 2023

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Published by: CBC News
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By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon

Horizon Health Network is tightening its masking rules again, requiring all health-care workers, patients, visitors and designated support persons to wear a medical-grade mask in all patient and clinical areas of its facilities, starting Monday.

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No plans to extend mask requirements: Health Department

Published October 24, 2023

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Published by: Nunatsiaq News
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The Nunavut government is not planning to expand the mask mandate it imposed last week at the territory’s health centres.

The Health Department announced the change Oct. 17 in a news release in light of “increasing numbers” of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses.

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BC’s new masking guidance isn’t enough

Published October 17, 2023

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Published by: The Peak
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By Michelle Young

As of October 3, masks are mandatory for healthcare workers and visitors in settings that are accessible to patients, including areas where they receive care. This includes spaces like the rooms where doctors and nurses serve patients directly, or areas where patients may stay while waiting, such as lobbies. The policy also extends to contractors or volunteers in the area, but does not include private clinics or patients themselves.

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Face masks mandatory in all areas of Lakeridge Health facilities as of Monday, Oct. 16

Published October 16, 2023

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Published by: DurhamRegion.Com
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By Tim Kelly

As of today, Monday, Oct. 16, everyone is required to wear a medical grade mask when they enter any Lakeridge Health facility.

This is a change from the masking policy Lakeridge Health had in place in July 2023, when masks were only mandatory in patient-facing areas, and were optional but recommended in all other areas of the hospital.

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Covid deaths are on the rise again, so what happens? Mask-wearing in hospitals is scrapped

Published October 16, 2023

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Published by: The Guardian
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By George Monbiot

For some people, going to hospital may now be more dangerous than staying at home untreated. Many clinically vulnerable people fear, sometimes with good reason, that a visit to hospital or the doctors’ surgery could be the end of them.

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Royal Alex becomes first Alberta hospital to bring back required masking

Published October 13, 2023

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Published by: CTV News
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By Sean Amato

Health-care workers, contractors and patients now have to wear masks in some parts of the Royal Alexandra Hospital, in an effort to slow the spread of COVID‑19.

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Les masques sont de retour dans les hôpitaux et centres de soins à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard

Published October 13, 2023

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Health P.E.I. is reintroducing the wearing of masks for certain healthcare workers. Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise in care centres.

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COVID-19 masking directives in place at AHS acute-care sites starting Thursday

Published October 11, 2023

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Published by: CTV News / The Canadian Press
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By Dean Bennett

Alberta Health Services is adopting stricter masking rules in hospitals as it deals with COVID-19 outbreaks, but regions and hospitals are free to ignore the directive.

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Masking returns to Windsor Regional Hospital, Erie Shores HealthCare

Published October 6, 2023

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Published by: Windsor Star
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By Dave Waddell

With the influenza and COVID-19 viruses expected to ramp up in the second half of October, Windsor Regional Hospital and Erie Shores HealthCare are returning to modified mandatory masking in their facilities.

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CHEO extending masking requirements in advance of viral season

Published October 4, 2023

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Published by: CTV News
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By Josh Pringle

CHEO is extending mandatory masking requirements to all areas of the hospital where one metre distance cannot be maintained and introducing visitor restrictions, as the children’s hospital prepares for the viral season.

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