{"id":3058,"date":"2023-07-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2023-11-18T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T17:45:23","slug":"a-patients-right-to-masked-health-care-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-patients-right-to-masked-health-care-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Patient\u2019s Right to Masked Health Care Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2023, Mass General Brigham instructed its patients that they \u201ccannot ask staff members to wear a mask because our policies no longer require it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following patient protests, the hospital updated its policies with an imperfect fix, announcing that \u201cpatients can ask, but providers determine when and if masking in a particular situation is clinically necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2023, Mass General Brigham instructed its patients that they \u201ccannot ask staff members to wear a mask because our policies no longer require it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following patient protests, the hospital updated its policies with an imperfect fix, announcing that \u201cpatients can ask, but providers determine when and if masking in a particular situation is clinically necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-patients-right-to-masked-health-care-providers\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Patient\u2019s Right to Masked Health Care Providers<\/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":[18,23,259,19,245,175,14,51,143],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-human-rights","tag-masks","tag-n95-respirators","tag-public-health-measures","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}