{"id":3067,"date":"2020-04-02T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2023-11-18T18:44:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T23:44:59","slug":"ontario-alberta-change-policy-limiting-n95-masks-as-health-care-workers-demand-greater-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ontario-alberta-change-policy-limiting-n95-masks-as-health-care-workers-demand-greater-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario, Alberta change policy limiting N95 masks as health-care workers demand greater access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least two provinces have bowed to union pressure to let some health professionals use specialized respirator face masks when treating COVID-19 patients, sparking concern among infection-control experts this will undermine health workers\u2019 trust in their advice.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta and Ontario have reached agreements with unions to allow some health-care workers to use N95 respirator masks if they feel it is necessary. Nova Scotia\u2019s largest nursing union is now calling on provincial officials to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two provinces have bowed to union pressure to let some health professionals use specialized respirator face masks when treating COVID-19 patients, sparking concern among infection-control experts this will undermine health workers\u2019 trust in their advice.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta and Ontario have reached agreements with unions to allow some health-care workers to use N95 respirator masks if they feel it is necessary. Nova Scotia\u2019s largest nursing union is now calling on provincial officials to do the same.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/ontario-alberta-change-policy-limiting-n95-masks-as-health-care-workers-demand-greater-access\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario, Alberta change policy limiting N95 masks as health-care workers demand greater access<\/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":[416,315,96,561,18,380,560,23,245,218,119,258,14],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airborne-transmission","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-canadian-union-of-public-employees","tag-covid-19","tag-droplet-dogma","tag-droplet-precautions","tag-hospitals","tag-n95-respirators","tag-nova-scotia","tag-ontario","tag-public-health-agency-of-canada","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","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=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}