{"id":3064,"date":"2021-12-16T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2023-11-18T18:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T23:25:33","slug":"citing-omicrons-airborne-potential-ontario-hospitals-ltc-homes-will-now-use-n95-respirators-with-covid-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/citing-omicrons-airborne-potential-ontario-hospitals-ltc-homes-will-now-use-n95-respirators-with-covid-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing Omicron\u2019s airborne \u2018potential\u2019, Ontario hospitals, LTC homes will now use N95 respirators with COVID patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario health officials are changing a key recommendation on the use of hospital personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the \u201cpotential\u201d that the highly-transmissible Omicron variant can spread at a distance through the air.<\/p>\n<p>Health-care workers providing care to a \u201csuspected or confirmed\u201d COVID-19 patient in hospitals, long-term-care homes, or in a home-care situation will now be required to also use a \u201cfit-tested, seal-checked N95 respirator,\u201d according to interim guidance issued by Public Health Ontario Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario health officials are changing a key recommendation on the use of hospital personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the \u201cpotential\u201d that the highly-transmissible Omicron variant can spread at a distance through the air.<\/p>\n<p>Health-care workers providing care to a \u201csuspected or confirmed\u201d COVID-19 patient in hospitals, long-term-care homes, or in a home-care situation will now be required to also use a \u201cfit-tested, seal-checked N95 respirator,\u201d according to interim guidance issued by Public Health Ontario Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/citing-omicrons-airborne-potential-ontario-hospitals-ltc-homes-will-now-use-n95-respirators-with-covid-patients\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Citing Omicron\u2019s airborne \u2018potential\u2019, Ontario hospitals, LTC homes will now use N95 respirators with COVID patients<\/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":[416,96,18,290,19,245,55,119,175,559,14,143],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airborne-transmission","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-long-term-care-homes","tag-masks","tag-n95-respirators","tag-omicron","tag-ontario","tag-public-health-measures","tag-public-health-ontario","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","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=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}