Masking in Hospitals

Toronto’s UHN hospitals (Princess Margaret, Toronto General…) are reinstating masking requirements. BUT medical masks. N95s are allowed, but not required. AND masks are not required in lobbies and common areas. So you’re fine to go up the elevator with a crowd of people without a mask despite that elevators are one of the easiest places to catch Covid. But it’s way better than this other tactic:

Amazing that we got to this place that hospitals turn away sick people!!

But we’re still just getting breadcrumbs.

Barry Hunt commented on the new mask measures,

“Hospitals have set a pretty low bar for protection. Mandating ‘masks’ instead of ‘respirators’ for respiratory protection is like recommending sneakers instead of work boots on a construction site. Yes, better than flip flops, but give me a break.”

The hospitals also explain that it’s about avoiding seasonal illnesses, despite also saying, elsewhere, that Covid is NOT seasonal.