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Q&A: Nearly All Healthcare Workers Fighting COVID-19 Need N95s
July 14, 2020
Harry Peled, MD: “I think for administrators and infection control people, the attitude has to be there is enough evidence that the wearing of N95s should be official. The claim that we’re going to wait for perfect evidence is just not tenable. We don’t do that for anything else in medicine.”
N95s Should Be Standard Use for All Inpatient COVID Care, Say Investigators
June 30, 2020
Investigators argue in the Annals of Internal Medicine that all healthcare workers in inpatient settings caring for COVID-19 patients should be equipped with N95s.
Nasty ‘Maskne’: Ways Healthcare Workers Fighting COVID-19 Can Deal With It
June 25, 2020
Healthcare workers are particularly susceptible to maskne because they tend to wear their masks for extended periods.