{"id":1054,"date":"2020-08-12T15:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/?post_type=cu_description&#038;p=1054"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:05:18","slug":"it-isnt-mandatory-for-children-from-kindergarten-to-grade-3-to-wear-masks-ive-heard-masks-can-become-unsafe-if-not-worn-properly-is-there-any-truth-in-that","status":"publish","type":"cu_description","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/description\/it-isnt-mandatory-for-children-from-kindergarten-to-grade-3-to-wear-masks-ive-heard-masks-can-become-unsafe-if-not-worn-properly-is-there-any-truth-in-that\/","title":{"rendered":"It isn&#8217;t mandatory for children from Kindergarten to grade 3 to wear masks. I&#8217;ve heard masks can become &#8216;unsafe&#8217; if not worn properly&#8230;is there any truth in that?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the CDC, younger children (e.g., preschool or early elementary aged) may be unable to wear a mask properly, particularly for an extended period of time. A recent Rapid Response Report from Alberta Health Services, visible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albertahealthservices.ca\/assets\/info\/ppih\/if-ppih-covid-19-sag-mask-use-in-community-rapid-review.pdf\">here<\/a>, found that self-contamination of the hands or face with improper donning and doffing technique was worthy of concern, especially with younger children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_description_type":[104],"class_list":["post-1054","cu_description","type-cu_description","status-publish","hentry","cu_description_type-back-to-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_description"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_description_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description_type?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}