Is it time for Canada to drop the mask?
Ten more days. That’s all the government of Ontario needed to wait in order to be certain it was making the right decision before it announced the end of mask mandates, according to Dr. Peter Juni, the head of the province’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.
At the same time, Dr. Juni isn’t saying the move was a mistake, because all the numbers – cases, hospitalizations and deaths – have been trending steadily downward, and waste-water signals are stable. As well, a number of critics, most notably the head of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, Canada’s largest pediatric hospital, thinks the mask mandate ought toOur point here is not to criticize Ontario’s timing. The point here is that, as the Omicron-driven fourth wave of the pandemic recedes, there are a lot of mixed messages being given to the public across Canada.
That’s not exactly what you would call medical advice. Are masks a wise personal choice or are they overkill? For whom, and when? And where? Why are they still necessary on a crowded bus but not in a crowded movie theatre?
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