Covid rules could be kaput by the campaign

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The buzz around Queen’s Park is that all remaining Covid restrictions could be gone come campaign season — and the top doc seems to be leaning in that direction.

Dr. KIERAN MOORE told reporters at his Thursday briefing that Covid vaccination policies for hospitals, post-secondary institutions, retirement homes and shelters could be scrapped by March 1, which is when most other restrictions will be lifted, including the vax pass system. (Long-term care homes fall under a separate policy.)

There’s no end-date for masks yet, but Moore says that would be reviewed again as soon as the second week of March, and while masks may not be mandatory indoors, they would still be recommended. That goes for schools, too.

Individual institutions could keep their own policies rolling — like when many hospitals went further than the province and brought in their own stricter vaccine mandates. Indeed, the Canadian Press asked over a dozen hospitals with those mandates if they would be lift…