Emanuel said that Massachusetts General Hospital recently requested his daughter to replace her N95 with a surgical mask when she went for a checkup. The facility cited quality control but “their ‘high quality’ was worse than the quality of the mask she was wearing,” he said.
The facility told POLITICO that it follows CDC guidance, and in late January started allowing patients to keep wearing N95s as long as they layer a hospital-provided surgical mask on top. The hospital’s associate infection control head, Erica Shenoy, said the hospital’s staff wear surgical masks alone, which she called “perfectly safe” and effective against Covid. The hospital doesn’t provide N95s, she said, partly because they are “more uncomfortable.
While daily infections are down roughly 95 percent from their January peak, Covid-19 can still be deadly for the elderly, vulnerable or immunocompromised patients who find themselves in the hospital. And infections of healthy, vaccinated people can also lead to long Covid, an array of barely understood, potentially debilitating medical conditions that can last for months to years.found that more than 3,000 patients were infected with Covid each week in January, during the Omicron wave.
Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease specialist who advises the Biden administration, said there is “no doubt” that the lack of the more-protective face masks contributed to those grim totals. Osterholm wrote to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and other senior officials shortly after the inauguration, urging the CDC to recommend N95s for all workers.Advocates for those with disabilities and the immunocompromised have pleaded with the administration to recommend N95s for everyday use in indoor public places. The CDC declined to do so and acknowledged in January that cloth masks provide less protection than surgical masks or N95s.
Well, I don't believe we all ever needed universal mask wearing anyway. We're getting worked up over Covid like no other disease in history.
I believe this falls under the 'no shit' category.
Why? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
N95s typically work properly if you are fit tested first. This is what all hospitals do with all staff to ensure safety and spread of disease. The public is not privileged to said testing hence why hospitals ask them to be removed by the public.
N95s only give better protection if they are fitted and worn correctly.
Some hospitals can kiss my ass. I'll wear a mask until I deem it safe enough to stop. I pity the fool that dares ask me to remove my mask.
This is a very confused headline
This study comes courtesy of Captain Obvious.
What a weird tweet.
Retweeting stories from 2020?
This is breaking news? OMFG.