Some hospitals refusing to mask anymore because they claim people are likely to get #COVID elsewhere anyway. That's a dereliction of duty. Regardless of what is happening elsewhere, no one should ever have to risk their health while seeking medical care. Do no harm.
@luckytran Not to mention that it protects staff from catching nasty bugs from patients. If you don't care about the patients, how about self-interest!
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I do not understand this. As an RN we wore masks long before the current pandemic to keep our patients safe as well as ourselves. Masks are not just for this particular virus. We swore an oath to do no harm. WTF is this?
@luckytran quite unfortunate that hospitals no longer believe in the germ theory of disease, that used to be one of the nicer achievements of human progress
@luckytran And yet hospitals is where you get a higher concentration of vulnerable and at-risk patients. Even catching a common cold from someone in a crowded waiting room can trigger serious problems in people with #asthma, #cancer, transplant recipients, etc. There must be data out there showing a drop in #nosocomial infections during #mask wearing during mandates?
Not just hospitals, any healthcare setting where vulnerable people and sick people are likely to mix -- including their FP's clinic. #COVID#IDmastodon#MedMastodon
@Ally_SMMiller@luckytran I'm curious if any bodies monitor trends in nosocomial infections in general -- for all the various things people catch in hospital settings.
@AskPippa@luckytran Yes - reporting (and investigation) of MRSA and Clostridium Difficile infection, for example, is very strict in UK hospitals. Monitoring of other infections, less so - previously the data on Respiratory viruses (at least COVID and flu) was pretty good. I haven’t looked for a while though
@luckytran My husband had an endoscopy/colonoscopy at the same time last week. I live in MT, it's masks optional now. I was the only person who wore a mask the entire time. Not the doctor, nurses or anesthesiologist. I am a cancer survivor with an autoimmune disorder. I just can't anymore, these people simply do not care.
@luckytran can you imagine? restaurants: employees don’t have to wash their hands after using the restroom, come on!! customers are likely to get Norovirus elsewhere 🙄
@luckytran I made my order in advance so I could pick it up. I called a ride sharing service. I put on my mask. I wore it in the car both ways, where I sat in the right rear position with the window open a bit. One driver wore a mask. One did not. In the store, one employee wore a mask. Others did not. I kept mine on.
Other than outdoors where I'm certain I'll be alone or at a distance from others e.g., garbage night/collecting my mail from a group mailbox, I always wear a mask wherever I go.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@luckytran Correct, but not wearing a mask by medical staff is indeed in contradiction with their oaths.
That's the idea here.
Depending on the kind of mask, non-valved respirators also protect both ways. There's no technical reason valved respirators can't be made to do that too, they're just not designed like that right now.
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As I've said many times over the past few years, I find it absolutely wild that "back in my day" we refused to see a doctor because we expected that no matter what we went for, we would catch something worse in the waiting room.
Yet after a global pandemic and so many experts showing us that there is a better way which has worked fine in densely populated countries, we still haven't learned a damn thing.
No matter what level of masking you use elsewhere, keep them in medical care!
@ned@luckytran we lost a family member a few years ago from complications from a hospital-acquired superbug. They'd originally been admitted for a broken knee.
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