{"id":19069,"date":"2022-05-05T00:11:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=19069"},"modified":"2022-06-10T00:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:12:33","slug":"health-experts-urge-province-to-reinstate-mandatory-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/health-experts-urge-province-to-reinstate-mandatory-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"Health experts urge province to reinstate mandatory masking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c5 c13\"><span class=\"c2\">(May 2, 2022)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c5 c13\"><span class=\"c2\">By: Durham Radio News<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c5\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/nEbdB1nyxWYa-RstPBUWH076zTHkkS6ZrB7qZotEIWJ_fAilRkFZmSQZPduzJgjVpV_57kQFFtxz07ysaGFU7dcuJAmquAa4naee-VFdRm0BO9II0eZ-vP_Zbu7zoQrcwICY0gvuaTzVoCnwCg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">Masks in most public settings in Ontario are no longer required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">However, as transmission of COVID-19 remains high, health experts are asking the province to reinstate mandatory masking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">On Monday, the Ontario Health Coalition held a press conference with health and legal experts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">One of those to speak was Infectious Diseases specialist Dr. Dick Zoutman who says COVID-19 is dominantly an airborne spread disease and people should be wearing proper masks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cSince Ontario lifted its public health protections on March 21, 2022 we have seen:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"c33 lst-kix_list_7-0 start\">\n<li class=\"c5 c37 li-bullet-0\"><span class=\"c2\">Increased COVID-19 transmission with enormous impacts to students, teachers and school staff due to record high absenteeism<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c5 c37 li-bullet-0\"><span class=\"c2\">Continuous intense pressure on our hospitals and their beleaguered staff who are getting sick with COVID-19 in droves, making it very hard to provide the hospital services we all depend upon, causing increasing backlogs and waitlists for essential health services and surgeries<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c5 c37 li-bullet-0\"><span class=\"c2\">Worrisome increases in hospitalization of our elderly citizens and a huge number of children getting infected.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cThe simple act of wearing a mask is a cheap and extremely effective way to protect everyone from COVID-19,\u201d said Dr. Zoutman. \u201cIndeed, if we all wore well fitting masks while in in-door public places we could stop COVID-19 in its tracks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">When asked why masks didn\u2019t work to stop other waves during the pandemic Zoutman explained that many people were using masks that were very ineffective such as cloth masks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">He is asking the proper masks be made mandatory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">Another Infectious Diseases specialist, Dr. David Fisman, also spoke in favour of reinstated masks at the press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cMasks are important for prevention of respiratory disease spread because they both filter infectious virus out of the exhaled breath of infected individuals and they reduce risk by filtering viruses out of inhaled air of a susceptible person (1, 2),\u201d said Dr. Fisman. \u201cRecent work by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) demonstrates a remarkable reduction in risk of 83 per cent for people who wear well-fitting N95 and KN95 masks (3).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">Associate Professor of Law at Western University Dr. Jacob Shelley says the 34 local boards of health in province do have the power to implement mask mandates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">So far local boards have health have said it\u2019s up to the province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">\u201cThe Reopening Ontario Act granted the province new powers, but it did not take away any of the existing authority or responsibility that a public health board or medical officer of health has,\u201d said Shelley. \u201cThe Health Promotion and Protection Act in Ontario grants decision-making authority to these boards and their medical officers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c9\"><span class=\"c2\">He says if the Ontario Government or the Chief Medical Officer of Health don\u2019t take action to reinstate masks the local health boards should.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamradionews.com\/archives154202\"><span class=\"c19\">Link to the original article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 2, 2022) 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