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       Re: Masking Tracking Thread
       By: Masked Man Date: January 5, 2026, 10:59 pm
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       Hospitals limit visitation as new flu strain spreads across
       Eastern Carolina
       by Emilia Paz
       Mon, January 5, 2026 at 5:39 PM
       “Fischer said people can spread the flu for up to two days
       before showing symptoms, which increases the risk in hospital
       settings…
       Health officials also stress frequent handwashing as one of the
       most effective ways to prevent illness.
       “In addition to CarolinaEast, ECU Health, Carteret Health Care,
       and Onslow Memorial Hospital have also implemented visitation
       restrictions as they work to prevent further spread of the flu.“
       Onslow Memorial Hospital
       Under the new guidelines, visitors 11 years old and younger are
       prohibited from all inpatient areas and waiting rooms.
       In addition, any visitors showing respiratory symptoms are also
       prohibited from those areas, regardless of age.
       Healthy visitors of any age are still allowed in hospital
       lobbies and retail or food service locations.
       ECU Health
       Due to high volumes, ECU Health may ask visitors to wait in an
       alternate off-unit location to adhere with facility safety
       protocols.
       Carteret Health Care
       BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT
       Carteret Health Care is currently experiencing
       higher-than-expected levels of influenza. Because respiratory
       illnesses can spread quickly in larger groups, we highly
       encourage limiting visitors to 1 - 2 individuals at this time to
       help keep our patients and staff safe.
       LINK:
  HTML https://wcti12.com/news/local/hospitals-limit-visitation-as-new-flu-strain-spreads-across-eastern-carolina
       COMMENT:
       “Fischer said people can spread the flu for up to two days
       before showing symptoms, which increases the risk in hospital
       settings…“
       ..So here are three hospitals that aren’t going to use masks.
       “Healthy visitors of any age are still allowed in hospital
       lobbies and retail or food service locations”
       ...I suppose the hospital doesnt think the flu can exist up to
       two days before showing symptoms, which increases the risk in
       hospital lobbies and retail or food service locations.
       ..So hospitals admit they aren't taking measures to protect
       visitors and guests from the contagious illness that the
       patients bring in as well. Not a single hospital as of yet has
       said: Wear a mask so you don't catch the flu because we have
       patients with the flu here.
       I don’t believe for a moment that the hospitals mentioned in
       this article who are busy caring for flu victims and in the
       midst of a flu outbreak nationwide have time to fully diagnose
       all these maskless healthy people moreover even if they were
       able to determine the health of guests and visitors I certainly
       don’t see any efforts to protect them from the flu by suggesting
       mask usage along with other precautions.
       Moreover I see nothing that signifies that staff is going to
       mask and use precautions such as masking  to prevent the spread
       of airborne illness betwixt them, their patients or the visitors
       and guests even if the visitors and guests are perfectly
       healthy.
       .. sounds like they are hosting a super spreader event by their
       own admission.
       …Sounds like they definitely aren’t going to suggest to those
       they magically have deemed to be healthy to take precautions
       such as masking to prevent their healthy individuals from
       catching the flu from their patients.
       I guess the hospitals here are under the false impression their
       staff don’t have to mask because they are healthy and ‘healthy’
       doctors and nurses here also don’t have to mask because they are
       healthy and haven’t caught the flu yet while exposing themselves
       to the flu despite Fischer having said “people can spread the
       flu for up to two days before showing symptoms, which increases
       the risk in hospital settings”
       There certainly doesn’t seem to be any building design or
       infrastructure  in place in the engineering sense …nothing
       -about the building design or it’s rooms, elevators and
       corridors and waiting rooms that can prevent the virus and the
       airborne illness and disease  from having great success
       spreading and finding hosts to multiply in betwixt the healthy
       and the sick.
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       #Post#: 4729--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Masking Tracking Thread
       By: Masked Man Date: January 6, 2026, 12:26 am
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       Brown University Health facilities
       Starting Jan. 6, doctors, patients, staff, and visitors will be
       required to wear masks at all times within Brown University
       Health facilities.
       LINK:
  HTML https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhDO4m4HEh8
       #Post#: 4730--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Masking Tracking Thread
       By: Masked Man Date: January 6, 2026, 12:34 am
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       South County Hospital
       South County Hospital said all visitors, patients and health
       care workers will be required to wear a mask starting Monday.
       LINK:
  HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/south-county-hospital-will-require-masks/ar-AA1Ttqze?apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1
       #Post#: 4732--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Masking Tracking Thread
       By: Masked Man Date: January 6, 2026, 3:27 am
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       Masking Tracking Thread Merits
       Note on the merits and usefulness of this thread:
       Just offhand, I can't help but marvel at the usefulness of this
       thread. This is an archive that has scientific merit and serves
       to better our care and  conditions. Here is but a partial list
       of merits of this tracking thread that I am sure will evolve and
       grow....
       1) Over time there may be patterns between the precautions
       hospitals take and correspondence of the actual health
       conditions of that area of people who attend those medical
       facilities.
       2) This Masking Thread may even even serve as  a consumer
       reports of sorts for patients.
       3) I can see here where models of the ideal hospital conditions
       might form from  these tracking threads.
       4) Maybe hospitals themselves will see patterns of success rates
       in illness and prevention and compete with who can give the best
       care for their patients just by studying these Masking tracking
       archives.
       5) Just imagine how useful publicly accessible  archive and
       history of what hospitals did and do do and how they modify
       their care during times of illnesscould prove to help us all!
       These are important historical and scientific data, mile
       markers, measures, rates, and records that can serve to match up
       with other records that will prove invaluable in the medical
       care world that can only prove beneficial to the human condition
       at large.
       Keep up the good work Data Report Info! May the list of Masking
       Tracking merits and data continue to be documented!
       The Masked Man
       NOTE: Just as Flu is at it highest rate ever recorded since
       records of the CDC in 1997, Data Report Info has produced a
       pragmatic archive of significance called the Masking Tracking
       Thread which begun in 2025 and now in 2026 and we have just
       begun to keep track of such masking behavior!
       .
       #Post#: 4821--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Masking Tracking Thread
       By: Data Report Date: January 13, 2026, 9:00 pm
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       Central Va. hospitals recommend masking in health care centers
       as flu, COVID-19 cases surge.
       Source of information.
       1. Virginia Mercury.
  HTML https://virginiamercury.com/briefs/central-va-hospitals-recommend-masking-in-health-care-centers-as-flu-covid-19-cases-surge/<br
       />
       #Post#: 4844--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Masking Tracking Thread
       By: Data Report Date: January 15, 2026, 8:51 pm
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       UNC Health Pardee brings back masks due to illness surge.
       Source of information.
       1. WSPA.
  HTML https://www.wspa.com/news/unc-health-pardee-brings-back-masks-due-to-illness-surge/<br
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