Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, faces a boycott and accusations of ableism after lifting its mask mandate on Saturdays to stay afloat.

‘The health and safety of our patients, staff, and visitors remain our top priority.’

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A local health group is calling on B.C. to reinstate and improve health-care mask protections in medical settings. In March 2025, the Province dropped its health-care mask requirement. DoNoHarm BC, an organization advocating for it to be reinstated, had been hoping that they would do so once respiratory illness season started last fall. “We watched other provinces reenact these seasonal mask mandates, and waited and waited,” Beth Campbell Duke, a science educator, told Daily Hive. “We had a letter-writing campaign, and still there was no response.” While people who are immunocompromised or immunosuppressed are most at risk, she said that it poses a risk to everyone because no one knows how COVID-19 infection could impact them. Campbell Duke’s husband is a lung transplant recipient and now a cancer patient, so she directly deals with the consequences of the Province’s decision to remove the mandate and not reinstate it. When the BC Ministry of Health dropped the mandate, they said they still encourage people to wear medical masks in health-care settings. But Campbell Duke said that without a mandate, she doesn’t see this happening. “People within health care, they seem to require a mandate in order to wear a mask,” she...

Reinstate masks in Yukon healthcare

Overfull hospitals are worsening delirium, causing bedsores and leading to patient care in hospital bays and bathrooms.

The CDC warns that a respiratory illness preceding a case of walking pneumonia can increase the risk of severity. But Huffpost wants people to blame mask mandates from 3+ years ago.

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya holds a news conference in April attended by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary. Bhattacharya criticized mask mandates for schools in 2022. Someday we Americans...

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Dr. Natalie Bridger says a rise in reported COVID-19 cases in Newfoundland and Labrador is driving the return of a temporary mask mandate in clinical settings across the province.