For Patient Safety, It Is Not Time to Take Off Masks in Health Care Settings | Annals of Internal Medicine https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-1190# “Although gold-standard evidence is not available, we argue that, despite the lack of clinical efficacy trials (as with the widely accepted practice of #HandHygiene), #masking in interactions between # patients and #HealthCare personnel should continue to receive serious consideration as a patient safety measure.”
“A compelling reason for continuing #masking in health care is #presenteeism, a behavior that long preceded, and will likely outlast, the pandemic. Health care personnel are notorious for coming to work while ill. In studies conducted during the pandemic, half to two thirds of health care personnel acknowledged working with symptoms of respiratory illness”
Post #PyConUS I find myself home, happy, and healthy. Many thanks to the organizers for holding the line on #masking and #vaccination requirements and for prioritizing the health of the amazing #Python community.
I loved seeing all of you, meeting some new people, reconnecting with good friends, and generally reminding myself that while I may write Ruby professionally now, my heart is always going to be whitespace-delimited.
“[H]ospitals cannot necessarily avoid liability by arguing that patients consent to unmasked care. Many patients cannot voluntarily consent to this…. Moreover… courts have generally rejected the argument that patients can consent to medical malpractice.”
One of the cruelest jokes society plays on the #autistic community is drilling into the brains of very young children with a predisposition for creative, out of the box problem solving, and telling them that they themselves are, in fact, The Problem.
Greek composer and musician #Vangelis [known for scoring the films Chariots of Fire (1981) and Blade Runner (1982), among other works] passed away from heart failure on May 17, 2022, one year ago today.
He was reported to have "died of COVID-19 complications".