{"id":587,"date":"2020-06-08T17:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/?p=587"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:18:50","slug":"covid-19-ppe-and-medical-students-at-sch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and Masking Requirements at SCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">If you are experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms or have experienced a possible or known exposure, please contact the Medical Student Program for guidance. <\/span><\/strong><strong>(<a href=\"mailto:medical.students@seattlechildrens.org\">medical.students@seattlechildrens.org<\/a>) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective 12\/11\/2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Masking<\/strong> is required for all workforce members when patient-facing. \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Masks are required for all parties within the ED lobby.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Masks are optional for patients, caregivers, and visitors in clinical settings and all other settings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>With measles spreading in the community, please encourage masking especially for symptomatic people to help protect high-risk patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Eye protection<\/strong> is only required based on standard and transmission-based precautions. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Respirators <\/strong>are only required when working with symptomatic patients whose COVID-19 and\/or influenza status is unknown. Respirators are only required based on transmission-based precautions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms or have experienced a possible or known exposure, please contact the Medical Student Program for guidance. (medical.students@seattlechildrens.org) Effective 12\/11\/2025:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/medstudents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}