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The SARS Commission — formed by the province of Ontario after the 2003 SARS outbreak – recommended a precautionary approach be taken during pandemics: that is, recognizing the fact that when a new infectious disease is identified, there is uncertainty about how it is transmitted, and thus health care workers need to wear the most protective mask possible. In 2006, the federal…

SASKATOON -- As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more and more people are choosing to wear gloves when they venture out into public, but a Saskatoon clinical microbiologist says people still need to be careful. “If you have a glove on and it's contaminated, and you're touching your face, particularly your vulnerable areas like your eyes, your nose and your mouth. Just because you…

More personal protective equipment (PPE) has been donated to front line health care workers. Seven pallets of PPE and other supplies gathered from Sask Polytechnic campuses will be distributed to health regions across the province. “Instead of just doing it piecemeal, since we cover the province, we decided to take a coordinated approach,” said Cheryl Schmitz, Sask…

The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses is calling on the premier to rethink “reopening Saskatchewan.” “We’re very fearful as registered nurses and health-care workers that when the premier starts to speak in these terms and musing about opening the province, it puts us in a very precarious position,” the union’s president, Tracy Zambory, said in an interview with…

Two of Saskatchewan’s largest unions representing health care workers want Premier Scott Moe to rein in talk of reopening the province’s economy, warning it’s too early to relax measures that have slowed the spread of COVID-19. Tracy Zambory, president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, said she was shocked when Moe said Monday that a plan to gradually reopen businesses…