Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/xtreme/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 1672

Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/xtreme/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 1672
masks – XtremeCuztoms

Tag: masks

Illinois Businessman Convicted of Price-Gouging N95 Masks During Early Weeks of Pandemic

CHICAGO—A Illinois businessman has been convicted of price-gouging in connection with the sale of N95 masks during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Krikor Topouzian, 62, of Winnetka, was convicted Thursday in federal court in Chicago following a bench trial, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He could face up to a year in prison when…


Public Health Agency of Canada Memo Warned Against Hugging Maskless Unvaccinated Children

A 2022 memo by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) recommended wearing masks or going outdoors before hugging unvaccinated children, who could be carriers of COVID-19 and may “pass the virus onto others.” “Determine if additional preventive practices are needed when hugging or being physical close, for example wearing masks and gathering outdoors,” PHAC…


Infectious Disease Experts Advise Health Care Workers Drop Universal Mask Policies

In another sign of changing attitudes to pandemic policy, infectious disease specialists writing in the Annals of Internal Medicine this month argued against the continuation of universal masking policies for doctors, nurses, and other health care workers. In the article, the eight authors, who are infectious disease specialists associated with Harvard and Washington University medical…


Infectious Disease Experts Advise Health Care Facilities to Drop Universal Mask Policies

In another sign of changing attitudes to pandemic policy, infectious disease specialists writing in the Annals of Internal Medicine this month argued against the continuation of universal masking policies for doctors, nurses, and other health care workers. In the article, the eight authors, who are infectious disease specialists associated with Harvard and Washington University medical…


Fauci Says Americans Shouldn’t Blame Him for COVID-19 Lockdowns, School Closures

Dr. Anthony Fauci has insisted that he is not to blame for millions of Americans having to go into lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, but acknowledged that something “went wrong” with the government’s response to the pandemic. Fauci made the comments in an interview with The New York Times Magazine on April 25 when questioned about the…


No Evidence on Whether N95 Masks Can Protect People Against COVID-19: UKHSA

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Wednesday said it couldn’t find evidence on whether N95 or similar masks can protect clinically vulnerable people from getting serious illness from COVID-19. Unlike a regular loose-fitting surgical mask, an N95 respirator is designed to fit tightly to form a seal around the nose and mouse. It’s also…


The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Domestic PPE Market

Most Canadian businesses that answered federal and provincial calls during the pandemic to build up a domestic sector for personal protective equipment have collapsed. The association that represents Canadian PPE companies says 90 per cent of those businesses have been forced to close or pivot to other industries because the federal government and Ontario have…


Cochrane Editor-in-Chief: New Mask Analysis Doesn’t Show Masks Don’t Work

The Cochrane Review’s editor-in-chief on March 10 issued an unusual statement claiming that a recent paper published by the review does not show masks don’t work. That interpretation of the paper is “inaccurate and misleading,” Karla Soares-Weiser, the editor-in-chief, said in a statement. The January review found that, based on the current evidence, masks were…


Wearing Masks When Ill ‘Not Compulsory,’ UK Government Says

The UK government has stressed that it is “not compulsory” to wear a mask while ill, though it has been “longstanding advice” from health authorities. It comes after Professor Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), issued advice on Jan. 2 saying adults should “wear a face covering” if they…


German Doctor to Appeal Jail Sentence for Illegally Issuing More Than 4,000 Mask Exemptions to New Patients

BERLIN—A German doctor was sentenced late Monday to two years and nine months in prison for illegally issuing more than 4,000 people with exemptions from wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic. A regional court in the southwestern town of Weinheim confirmed Tuesday that the doctor was convicted of “issuing incorrect health certificates” to people from…