So far, there's only been one confirmed case of the new coronavirus in Massachusetts. But hospitals in Boston are training staffers in PPE — that's personal protective equipment — just in case there are more. commonhealth
At Tufts Medical Center in Boston's Chinatown neighborhood, a dozen staffers are getting a brief lesson on PPE — that's personal protective equipment — against the new coronavirus.
Next, she explains how to put on a face mask, noting that it's the same sort of protection against airborne germs used for tuberculosis or measles. What's unusual comes next: face shields, transparent rectangles of plastic that cover the entire face. Happily, at Tufts Medical Center, there's been little call to apply the training fully, because no patient has met the federal criteria to qualify as a"Patient Under Investigation," or PUI.
"But by next week, and certainly the week after, we hope the testing will happen here in the state," she says.The virus is new, Doron says, but the equipment for dealing with it is not. "Patients may have to stay isolated, sometimes for days, in a home or in a hospital setting, depending on how ill they are, being monitored by medical and public health personnel until we have a definitive negative test," he says."Which is what's happening hundreds of times around the country, unfortunately, right now."
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