“The decisions some of these public health people are making are not getting better. They’re getting worse.”
eventually determined that health-care workers could choose which to wear. But according to Brosseau, the study authors faced tough challenges finding health-care workers who could participate and wear surgical masks instead of respirators, and had to look abroad to places like Egypt, Israel, and Pakistan—“countries with really different medical health-care systems,” she said.
“We don’t use surgical masks in any other context,” she said. “In any other industry, I’d be run out on a rail if I suggested a surgical mask for exposure to a hazardous aerosol. So why [does HICPAC] think this is a good idea?”was the director of occupational safety and health for the AFL-CIO from 1990 until her retirement in 2019. She called the guidelines outlined in the slide deck “Really astonishing. And frightening.
Despite that, said Seminario, HICPAC’s proposed guidelines are “all based upon trying to minimize protections, rather than being responsive to the science and providing a strong level of protection. We’re talking about health-care workers exposed to suspected and confirmed patients.”Peg Seminario Brosseau said the lack of discussion about ventilation is one of the things “that makes me think that they’re trying to turn everything into a droplet disease and not recognize small aerosol particles, or the distribution of those particles throughout a space. All of that is going to just disappear.”
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