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CDC Ebola Safety Protocols For Hospitals Recommend Only A Facemask... Yet USAMRIID & University Studies Clearly State Respirators Are REQUIRED
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With the current CDC safety protocols for hospital workers dealing with possible & confirmed Ebola cases, I can safely say that the US healthcare system is soon-to-be fucked...
Hospitals in the U.S. Get Ready for Ebola
The C.D.C. says that health care workers treating Ebola patients need only wear gloves, a fluid-resistant gown, eye protection and a face mask to prevent becoming infected with the virus. That is a far cry from the head-to-toe “moon suits” doctors, nurses and aides have been seeing on television reports about the outbreak.
Some hospital officials are skeptical of the new advice. “It’s not going to be enough for my health care workers to feel comfortable going into an isolation room,” said Peggy Thompson, the director of infection prevention at Tampa General Hospital.
[link to www.nytimes.com]
[link to www.cdc.gov]
Facemasks huh? What a joke...
USAMRIID’s MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL CASUALTIES HANDBOOK - Sixth Edition - April 2005
VIRAL HEMORRHAGIC FEVER
Isolation and Decontamination:
All VHF patients should be cared for using strict contact precautions, including hand hygiene double gloves, gowns, shoe and leg coverings, and faceshield or goggles. Airborne precautions should be instituted to the maximum extent possible. At a minimum, a fit-tested, HEPA filter-equipped respirator(such as an N-95 mask), a battery-powered, air-purifying respirator, or a positive pressure supplied air respirator should be worn by personnel sharing an enclosed space with or coming within six feet of a VHF patient. Multiple patients should be cohorted to a separate building or a ward with an isolated air-handling system. Ideally, VHF patients should be isolated in a negative pressure isolation room with 6-12 air exchanges per hour. Environmental decontamination is accomplished with hypochlorite or phenolic disinfectants.
[link to www.dhhr.wv.gov]
What don't you understand about that CDC... Respirators, isolated air-handling systems , negative pressure isolation rooms with scheduled air exchanges... your bullshit facemasks aren't going to do shit...
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy - University of Minnesota
Health workers need optimal respiratory protection for Ebola
We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.
The minimum level of protection in high-risk settings should be a respirator with an assigned protection factor greater than 10. A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) with a hood or helmet offers many advantages over an N95 filtering facepiece or similar respirator, being more protective, comfortable, and cost-effective in the long run.
[link to www.cidrap.umn.edu]
The irony of it all is that the CDC knows all this, and even states in their own writing that Ebola is transmittable via droplet form without the need of direct contact with an infected person, and has the capability of infecting anyone in the same room or care area if left for a prolonged period of time (which is where the scheduled air exchanges and isolated air-handling systems come into play).
CDC defines transmission for Ebola as follows.
1 Casual contact is defined as a) being within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) or within the room or care area for a prolonged period of time (e.g., healthcare personnel, household members) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations); or b) having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD case while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations). At this time, brief interactions, such as walking by a person or moving through a hospital, do not constitute casual contact.
* Outbreak affected countries include Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Lagos, Nigeria, as of 4-August-2014
[link to www.cdc.gov]
Note: This was just recently updated by the CDC to include this footnote.
Thread: CDC, Australian DoD & Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health & USAMRIID State That Ebola is an Aerosol Virus & Transmittable via Inhalation
This means respirators are REQUIRED to safely be around an infected person, especially when in a hospital type environment. Facemasks and home quarantines huh? It's almost like the CDC wants this to spread...
Just my 2 cents...
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