Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #masksinhealthcare, aggregated by home.social.
Study: SARS-CoV-2 RNA found in 39% of hospital air samples during outbreaks, despite good ventilation
CIDRAP
February 17, 2026
By Laine Bergeson
#COVID #COVID19 #ItsAirborne #AirborneTransmission #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsntOver #BringBackMasks #MasksInHealthcare #health #CdnPoli #N95sSaveLives
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Étude : présence d’ARN du SRAS-CoV-2 dans 39 % des échantillons d’air prélevés dans les hôpitaux pendant des éclosions, malgré une bonne ventilation
CIDRAP
Le 17 février 2026
Par Laine Bergeson
#COVID #COVID19 #LesVirusSontAéroportés #TransmissionAérienne #LaPandemieNEstPasFinie #BringBackMasks #MasksInHealthcare #santé #CdnPoli #N95sSaveLives
Jeff Bridges opens up about his battle with Covid/Long Covid, and states he thinks he got the virus in a healthcare setting where he was receiving chemo for cancer.
If the rich & famous can’t get healthcare workers to mask… what chance do the rest of us have?
Masks in healthcare now!
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/entertainment/jeff-bridges-cancer-covid-update-wellness
#covidisairborne #covidisnotover #longcovid #masksinhealthcare #chronicillness #disability #ableism
There are measles outbreaks in the U.S. and Canada. A disease we eradicated is making a comeback due to dangerous anti-vaxx rhetoric.
We need mandatory masking in healthcare, and we need it now.
A respirator protects against Covid, measles & more.
There’s no excuse to expose patients when we have the tools to prevent it:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/a-plea-to-maskless-healthcare-workers
#masksinhealthcare #measles #longcovid #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #sarscov2 #n95 #keepmasksinhealthcare #h5n1 #publichealth #donoharm
The latest hazard index from the academic-led team at Covid-19 Resources Canada, based on federal government wastewater data. Note that this forecast is provisional, due to missing data due to holiday lags.
Rates of Covid across Canada are “high” with around 1 in 126 Canadians currently infected (though across the border, rates in the US are around 1 in 50).
We also have many communicable disease outbreaks declared in healthcare right now, from norovirus, influenza and unspecified “respiratory infection”.
Stay safe out there: ventilate, vaccinate, educate, mitigate 😷 And join us at https://donoharmbc.ca/masks-in-healthcare/ to demand masks in medical settings ASAP - the next BC gov update on so-called “respiratory illness season” is expected Thursday, January 9th, and it’s vital to apply pressure in advance!
Already emailed BC policy-makers about the need for healthcare mask requirements? Take the next step and leave some phone messages 📞
It just takes a few seconds. You can use our quick script:
“Hello, this is ——— from postal code ———. I’m calling to urge you to help restore mask requirements in healthcare. We’ve entered fall and winter with widespread COVID infections, healthcare outbreaks, and now avian influenza. Without consistent healthcare protections, [I can’t safely get medical care / my vulnerable loved one is at risk / as a healthcare worker I face unnecessary risks.] You can learn more about these impacts at DoNoHarmBC.ca.
“There’s no need to call me back/I’d appreciate a callback about next steps. My number is —-————.”
You can get more contact deets at http://donoharmbc.ca/contact-list/ Let’s do this 🌟
#MasksInHealthcare #BCHealthCare #MasksWork #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
Thank you to @stillcovidingcanada for featuring the story of our campaign! We’re thrilled that @protect_bc and @cancovsoc are joining forces with us calling for mask requirements in healthcare.
Check out the story at https://stillcoviding.ca/en/communities/british-columbia/advocates-urge-bc-to-reinstate-healthcare-mask-protections-amid-rising-risks/ - then take action today at https://donoharmbc.ca/masks-in-healthcare/.
Let’s do this!
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MasksInHealthcare #BCHealthCare #n95 #h5n1
Whenever I catch up on the UK Covid inquiry - I’m horrified by how much denial and ignorance is on display.
By the fact that they’re discussing the death and disability of millions - yet continue to refer to the pandemic in the past tense.
The only mask I’ve seen was on Cathy Finnis - a clinically vulnerable patient who testified as to how difficult it is to access safe care. No one else in the room masked to protect HER.
Perhaps the most galling example of denial is this video of Matt Hancock - where he talks about the importance of vaccination because without it healthcare workers may unintentionally infect someone in their care.
They’re literally infecting people in their care now. The NHS has discouraged healthcare workers from testing - and IF they do test positive they don’t have to isolate. There’s no requirement to test negative before returning to work. They can treat patients knowing they have covid - and they aren’t even required to wear a respirator.
Hospital acquired covid has a 10% fatality rate and yet many facilities are doing absolutely nothing to protect the most vulnerable among us.
Patients like me didn’t ask to be clinically vulnerable. We didn’t get a choice in being high risk. We can’t “stay home” from the hospital. We go for life saving care - only to have our lives and baselines put at risk because no one is mitigating the spread of Covid.
It would be so easy to mandate masks in healthcare. To upgrade air quality and ventilation to reduce the spread. To have regular testing and ensure those who are positive are isolated.
They just don’t want to. We’re acceptable losses. Expendable. Not worthy of protection.
After all - how many times have we heard “only the vulnerable are at risk” as a means of justifying a whole host of risky and unjustifiable behaviour?
At this point I find it hard to say that infecting patients is “unintentional”. I desperately want to give people the benefit of the doubt - but we are five years into this and we KNOW it’s airborne.
If you’re working in healthcare and choosing not to test, isolate or mask - is it unintentional when you infect a patient? Or inevitable?
These questions keep me up at night.
I feel absolutely sick knowing people like me can no longer access safe healthcare. I feel deep unyielding pain when I think of all those we’ve already lost. I feel anger and rage when I consider how easy it would be to change course - and how few people care enough to even bother to try.
We can do better. We must do better. We all share the air - we’re not safe until everyone is safe.
#ukcovidinquiry #masksinhealthcare #sarscov2 #pandemic #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #keepmasksinhealthcare #WearARespie #ableism #eugenics #disability #clinicallyvulnerable #LongCOVID #chronicillness
Please consider sending a letter to your elected officials. Masks in healthcare settings should be a no-brainer, COVID or not.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/take-action-for-masks-in-healthcare-settings/
#COVID #WearAMask #KeepMasksInHealthCare #MasksInHealthCare @novid
Elderly & vulnerable people as well as healthcare professionals should stay safe in healthcare settings. Protect the NHS and All Healthcare: Petition #MasksInHealthcare https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636380 #MasksInHealthCare #CovidIsAirborne
All British Citizens can sign, no matter where you live.
#MasksInHealthcare #UK
New:
–Covid is causing severe allergies to hair dye
–Study: the less time you’re exposed, the lower your chances of infection
–US rise continues; Hawai’i leads in hospitalizations
–CDC compares (still evolving) BA.2.86/Pirola to Omicron
–Indoor Air Quality now regulated in Ireland
–Masks back after outbreak at Warner Bros./Discovery
More: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-88525377
#CovidIsntOver #MaskUp #Covid #LongCovid #Hawaii #Discovery #Ireland #IAQ #Omicron #Pirola #KeepMasksInHealthcare #MasksInHealthcare
Also: 3 days left to sign WHN’s letter to tell HICPAC their draft guidelines DO NOT adequately protect healthcare workers and patients!
Sign here: https://forms.gle/oDZTjY5yHWwqRwjn6
So- LA County drops mask requirement in healthcare, and all the CEO of UCLA Health/Hospital does is send out a lame email mentioning masks no longer required, but just strongly recommended now.
Come on UCLA Health-Johnese Spisso- show a little leadership!!
At least a little?
#Covid #masksinHealthcare #maskup #CovidisNotOver #LongCovid
LA County dropped masks in healthcare settings on 8/11- today
So that's why LA County Public Health omitted any mention of masking in their latest public messaging about the rising surge-
Politics > Public Health
Political pressure- Dropping mask requirements in health care already decided for August 11th & LA Co. Board of Supervisors to meet for further political meddling in PH on 8/15
Nevermind the pandemic wave surging now
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/16ed4e62318d3e6abf53e7c876b34e3d16cbceb7
DeSantis' murderous de-masking health care & LTC employees in Florida
Effective 8/1/23 LTC's and health care institutions cannot require employees to mask & face disciplinary action if they do so.
My elderly mother in LTC barely survived her 2nd Covid infection. Likely will not survive a 3rd.
DeSantis- Murderous. Evil. Sociopathic.
Note: Oddly pic in link shows opposite of article- as if requiring masks, but it's a mask ban
@DaywalkingRedhead @beadsland @ImaniBarbarin Shortly before pandemic began, an academic medical dept I worked for was starting to work with measurement of "frailty" (treating cancer patients was focus of dept).
As pandemic unfolded, was horrifying to see how "frailty" was then used by medical establishments to discriminate & deny life saving tx. Weaponized. Now would not work further w research so easily weaponized.
@MedSociOnWheels Excellent video on ableism in healthcare. Powerful, enraging, & necessary.
Now I just have to figure out how to get to the waiting room without going through the lobby and hallways
#MasksInHealthcare
Opinion: Ca health care providers’ retreat from COVID masking is shameful
In what universe is it ethically appropriate for physicians & hospitals to infect their own patients with COVID?
By DR. NOHA ABOELATA
Decisions to unmask aren't data driven or supported by experiential evidence. That is why hospital-issued statements fail to cite science for their policy changes. Instead, faceless committees issue platitudes about being in a “new phase”
Contact your local healthcare system & demand universal masking in healthcare settings. You can find scripts on what to say & specific contact information for your local hospital here:
https://www.protecttheirfuture.org/mask-mandates-in-hospitals?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Including a list of contact info for medical centers:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/e/2PACX-1vR0vDfhvpt8SMfclJIO4V6I-11ZUYb5iZhR8M2r0RsyQFYTWnmS7Sh86lmbrclVlg/pubhtml?gid=1933709718&single=true
@JoBlakely @hannu_ikonen @BootyLasher @LizEllisPhD @ahimsa_pdx @DestinieA @TracyTThomas
See the link above. Here is a short video where he explains how his mask advocacy AI letter generator works - it's very fast & easy. We can use it to quickly generate a lot of letters to medical facilities.
Medical facilities need to hear from us. We can make a difference.
Short video:
https://twitter.com/chrisdancy/status/1648815971744751618?s=20
#MaskUp #sarscov2 #LongCovid #AI #LetterWriting #Advocacy #MasksInHealthcare
🇮🇹 Italy extends mandatory masking in hospitals and social settings until the end of 2023. 😷
👏👏
#PublicHealth #MasksInHealthcare #bringbackmasks
#CovidIsNotOver
https://bird.makeup/users/longcoviditalia/statuses/1652007231037091840
Petition
Protect the NHS and All Healthcare: Require #MasksInHealthcare https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636380
Feels good knowing systems are now in place to maintain both occupational health and safety in many hospitals and better protect patients.
We now are in line with other industries like mining and construction that are obliged to ensure respiratory protection is available.
Now we need to ensure it is used effectively and is supported by adequate environmental controls and hazard management.
#N95 #MasksWork #MasksInHealthcare
Petition: Protect the NHS and All Healthcare: Require #MasksInHealthcare https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636380
