{"id":3179,"date":"2021-12-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2023-11-21T01:30:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T06:30:56","slug":"give-ffp3-masks-to-nhs-staff-during-omicron-doctors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/give-ffp3-masks-to-nhs-staff-during-omicron-doctors-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Give FFP3 masks to NHS staff during Omicron, doctors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHS staff treating Covid patients should be given much more protective facewear than thin surgical masks to help them avoid getting infected during the Omicron rise, doctors say.<\/p>\n<p>The British Medical Association (BMA), Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) and Doctors\u2019 Association UK are calling for frontline personnel to be given FFP3 masks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS staff treating Covid patients should be given much more protective facewear than thin surgical masks to help them avoid getting infected during the Omicron rise, doctors say.<\/p>\n<p>The British Medical Association (BMA), Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) and Doctors\u2019 Association UK are calling for frontline personnel to be given FFP3 masks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/give-ffp3-masks-to-nhs-staff-during-omicron-doctors-say\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give FFP3 masks to NHS staff during Omicron, doctors say<\/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":[591,18,295,389,23,19,245,55,14,50,143],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-medical-association","tag-covid-19","tag-ffp3-respirators","tag-healthcare-workers","tag-hospitals","tag-masks","tag-n95-respirators","tag-omicron","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-kingdom","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","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=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}