{"id":1435,"date":"2021-03-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2023-09-13T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T02:03:54","slug":"as-supply-of-n95-style-respirators-grows-some-say-its-time-to-upgrade-our-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/as-supply-of-n95-style-respirators-grows-some-say-its-time-to-upgrade-our-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"As supply of N95-style respirators grows, some say it\u2019s time to upgrade our masks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the pandemic began, masking recommendations in Canada have centred on the idea of protecting others: my mask protects you, your mask protects me. However, more contagious and potentially more dangerous variants of COVID-19 have some asking if it\u2019s time for an upgrade, so that people can rely on their masks to protect themselves as well as others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the pandemic began, masking recommendations in Canada have centred on the idea of protecting others: my mask protects you, your mask protects me. However, more contagious and potentially more dangerous variants of COVID-19 have some asking if it\u2019s time for an upgrade, so that people can rely on their masks to protect themselves as well as others.<\/p>\n

Continue readingAs supply of N95-style respirators grows, some say it\u2019s time to upgrade our masks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,19,245,14,143],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-masks","tag-n95-respirators","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}