{"id":460188,"date":"2026-02-07T18:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:24:16","slug":"one-of-three-outbreaks-at-sault-hospital-has-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460188\/","title":{"rendered":"One of three outbreaks at Sault hospital has ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An outbreak is declared when there are two or more cases of the same respiratory virus<\/p>\n<p>The Sault Area Hospital has declared that a COVID-19 outbreak on unit 2C is now over.<\/p>\n<p>Unit 2C is for patients requiring post-acute complex continuing care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sootoday.com\/local-news\/another-covid-19-outbreak-declared-at-local-hospital-11829515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two units<\/a> at the hospital still\u00a0have COVID-19 outbreaks. Those units include\u00a01B, which is for post-acute transitional care, and 3B,\u00a0&#8220;a general medicine unit that provides care for patients with a variety of non-surgical medical conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An outbreak is declared when there are two or more cases of the same respiratory virus.<\/p>\n<p>There were less than five confirmed cases of COVID-19 in each unit, although the hospital confirmed they are definitely taking this seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While any outbreak is concerning, we have strong protocols in place and remain focused on the safety of our patients, visitors, and staff,&#8221; said Brandy Sharp Young, the hospital&#8217;s director of corporate affairs, via email.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital is asking\u00a0the public to continue\u00a0following all\u00a0masking and hand hygiene guidelines to help reduce the risk of transmission.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An outbreak is declared when there are two or more cases of the same respiratory virus The Sault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,184109],"class_list":["post-460188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-sault-area-hospitalcovid-19-outbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}