{"id":4947,"date":"2024-03-16T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2024-03-20T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T01:17:10","slug":"advocacy-group-calls-for-stronger-mask-requirements-in-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/advocacy-group-calls-for-stronger-mask-requirements-in-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy group calls for stronger mask requirements in B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy group launches province-wide campaign to strengthen mask protections in healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>DoNoHarm BC, a grassroots group advocating for public health measures, is campaigning to keep mask protections in the healthcare industry year-long.<\/p>\n<p>In a release, the organization says healthcare workers are not required to stay masked everywhere. Last April, they were able to stop masking in various settings, including in ERs, children\u2019s hospitals, and cancer centres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cB.C. currently requires masks in hospitals and long-term care for staff, contractors, visitors, and volunteers \u2013 but not for patients,\u201d DoNoHarm BC said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile policy-makers have only guaranteed this measure for a \u201cfew months\u201d over the winter, DoNoHarm BC notes the last time BC discarded healthcare masking, multiple medical facilities suffered COVID outbreaks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy group launches province-wide campaign to strengthen mask protections in healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>DoNoHarm BC, a grassroots group advocating for public health measures, is campaigning to keep mask protections in the healthcare industry year-long.<\/p>\n<p>In a release, the organization says healthcare workers are not required to stay masked everywhere. Last April, they were able to stop masking in various settings, including in ERs, children\u2019s hospitals, and cancer centres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cB.C. currently requires masks in hospitals and long-term care for staff, contractors, visitors, and volunteers \u2013 but not for patients,\u201d DoNoHarm BC said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile policy-makers have only guaranteed this measure for a \u201cfew months\u201d over the winter, DoNoHarm BC notes the last time BC discarded healthcare masking, multiple medical facilities suffered COVID outbreaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/advocacy-group-calls-for-stronger-mask-requirements-in-b-c\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advocacy group calls for stronger mask requirements in B.C.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[141,929,83,96,18,232,23,19,245,233,14,143],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-activism","tag-advocacy","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-do-no-harm-bc","tag-hospitals","tag-masks","tag-n95-respirators","tag-protect-our-province-bc","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","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=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5046,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions\/5046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}