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New direction from Manitoba Health about masking up during flu season is an “easy step” to help keep vulnerable people healthy this flu season, the Manitoba Association of Senior Communities says. As of Wednesday, Shared Health said, staff at Manitoba hospitals, personal care homes and other health-care facilities, as well as …
Read More »Some Ontario hospitals reinstating masking requirements
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 8, 2023 1:01 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some eastern Ontario hospitals are bringing back mask requirements in patient-care areas as the respiratory virus season approaches. Kingston Health Sciences Centre says on its website that masking is now mandatory …
Read More »Masking alone wouldn’t have eased Ontario’s respiratory virus surge in the fall: PHO document
TORONTO — Introducing a mask mandate when respiratory viruses surged in the fall may not have eased the crush on pediatric hospitals, a Public Health Ontario science brief obtained by The Canadian Press concludes. The brief — which was not proactively made public, unlike the reports done by the now-defunct …
Read More »Alberta government memos on school masking ‘damning,’ union leader says
Internal documents, ordered released through the courts, are raising new questions about the Kenney government’s February decision to lift the mask mandate in schools and block school boards from bringing in their own. The new evidence is part of an ongoing case involving the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) and …
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