“A lot of pushback from hospitals etc. who don’t want to confront this issue”? Can you please explain? What’s that suspicion based on?
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Replying to @jakescottMD @peterstaley and
Who gets N95s where.. I keep hearing fights over this from health-care workers. Early on, it was who gets *any* kind of masks anywhere. Now it's who gets N95s when and where. Hospitals in the US tend to have good engineering so likely obscuring the issue a bit; not true globally.
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Replying to @zeynep @peterstaley and
So hospitals pushed back on CDC communication re transmission because of their N95 supply issues?
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Replying to @jakescottMD @peterstaley and
I don't know what happened in the CDC. But I keep hearing these fights within hospitals about what these guidelines touch: droplet versus airborne precautions, which is different than what the guidelines mean for the public.
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Replying to @zeynep @peterstaley and
I respect your opinion, but the implications of this suspicion based on “hearing fights” are serious, IMO, and could reverberate. Also, I think the focus on N95s may be a bit misguided. Is there evidence that they are more protective than surgical masks in non-AGP settings?
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Replying to @jakescottMD @peterstaley and
Those are good questions to investigate! Early on, much of the public health community was telling us only N95s were good enough, and anything else was probably a waste of time. I'm definitely hearing a lot of tensions but you are right that I'm not making a claim about the CDC.
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Replying to @zeynep @jakescottMD and
Hospitals have infection control experts, and I'm focused on the public guidance. Earlier, I was inundated by reports especially from nurses and staff who weren't *allowed* to wear even surgical masks at intake or even examination. Now they say it's the N95 fights...
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Replying to @zeynep @jakescottMD and
Personally, all I can say is that I wish health-care workers would get more transparency! Instead of a claim without data, CDC can say "we suspect and needs research" because contradictions make people suspicious and erode trust. I think acknowledging uncertainty is better!
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Replying to @zeynep @peterstaley and
I agree. But I also think that raising these sorts of suspicions about the motives of hospitals potentially undermines confidence that HCWs have in their institutions and should be supported by factual information rather than stories of hearing fights.
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You have a point I can delete that tweet because it is a suspicion—it's a reply but it can be quoted out of context— but I'm definitely hearing a lot of these tensions and having them resolve by the public health authorities with acknowledging *uncertainty* would be great.
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