A nurse wears personal protective equipment at a temporary quarantine and isolation facility for homeless people in North Miami, Florida, on 27 April. Photograph: Lynne Sladky/AP
Research from other nations hit hard by the virus confirms the concern. A report published earlier this month examined data from two hospitals in South Korea, and found that surgical masks “seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination” of coronavirus particles. A 2013 Chinese study found that twice as many health workers, 17%, contracteda respiratory illness if they wore only a surgical mask while treating sick patients, compared with 7% who continuously used an N95, per a study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Yet many health facilities, citing the CDC guidelines and scarce supply, are providing N95s in only limited medical settings. Earlier this month, the national Teamsters Union reported that 64% of its healthcare worker membership – which includes people working in nursing homes, hospitals and other medical facilities – could not get N95 masks. At Michigan Medicine, one of the largest hospitals in the state, employees don’t get N95s except for performing specific procedures on Covid-positive patients – such as intubating – or treating them in the ICU, said Katie Scott, an RN at the hospital and vice-president of the Michigan Nurses Association. Employees who otherwise treat Covid-19 patients receive surgical masks. That matches CDC protocol, but leaves nurses like Scott – who has read the research on surgical masks versus N95s – feeling exposed. “We are at a risk of getting this virus and we are at a risk of bringing it home to our families,” Scott said. woman wears an N95 respirator mask in Indiana on 22 April. Photograph: Jeremy Hogan/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock At Michigan Medicine, employees are not allowed to bring in their own protective equipment, according to a complaint the nurses’ union filed with the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Scott said friends and family have mailed her personal protective equipment (PPE), including N95 masks. It sits at home while she cares for patients. “To think I’m going to work and am leaving this mask at home on my kitchen table, because the employer won’t let me wear it,” Scott said. “You feel sacrificial in a way.” News reports from Kentucky to Florida to California have documented nurses facing retaliation or pressure to step down when they have brought their own N95 respirators. A spokesperson for Michigan Medicine declined to answer questions about the hospital’s protective equipment protocols. In New York, the center of the US’s outbreak, nurses across the state report receiving surgical masks, not N95s, to wear when treating Covid-19 patients, according to a court affidavit submitted by Lisa Baum, the lead occupational health and safety representative for the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). So far, at least 16 NYSNA members have died from the coronavirus, and more than 1,000have tested positive, according tounion estimates. National Nurses United has pushed Washington lawmakers to pass legislation that would ramp up production of N95s by compelling the White House to invoke the Defense Production Act, a Korean war-era law that allows the federal government, in an emergency, to direct private business in the production and distribution of goods. It is also calling on Congress to require that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) put forth an emergency temporary standard to mandate that employers provide healthcare workers with protective equipment, including N95s masks, when they interact with patients suspected to have Covid-19. “Nurses are not afraid to care for our patients if we have the right protections,” said Bonnie Castillo, the executive director of National Nurses United, “but we’re not martyrs sacrificing our lives because our government and our employers didn’t do their job. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/28/us-face-masks-n95-surgical-coronavirus-health-workers
A whip-smart neurologist, a social worker who sang Broadway: US health workers who died from Covid-19
Shefali Luthra and Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News
Tue 28 Apr 2020 09.22 EDTLast modified on Tue 28 Apr 2020 16.21 EDT
A nurse wears personal protective equipment at a temporary quarantine and isolation facility for homeless people in North Miami, Florida, on 27 April. Photograph: Lynne Sladky/AP
Research from other nations hit hard by the virus confirms the concern. A report published earlier this month examined data from two hospitals in South Korea, and found that surgical masks “seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination” of coronavirus particles. A 2013 Chinese study found that twice as many health workers, 17%, contracteda respiratory illness if they wore only a surgical mask while treating sick patients, compared with 7% who continuously used an N95, per a study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Yet many health facilities, citing the CDC guidelines and scarce supply, are providing N95s in only limited medical settings. Earlier this month, the national Teamsters Union reported that 64% of its healthcare worker membership – which includes people working in nursing homes, hospitals and other medical facilities – could not get N95 masks. At Michigan Medicine, one of the largest hospitals in the state, employees don’t get N95s except for performing specific procedures on Covid-positive patients – such as intubating – or treating them in the ICU, said Katie Scott, an RN at the hospital and vice-president of the Michigan Nurses Association. Employees who otherwise treat Covid-19 patients receive surgical masks. That matches CDC protocol, but leaves nurses like Scott – who has read the research on surgical masks versus N95s – feeling exposed. “We are at a risk of getting this virus and we are at a risk of bringing it home to our families,” Scott said.
woman wears an N95 respirator mask in Indiana on 22 April. Photograph: Jeremy Hogan/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock
At Michigan Medicine, employees are not allowed to bring in their own protective equipment, according to a complaint the nurses’ union filed with the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Scott said friends and family have mailed her personal protective equipment (PPE), including N95 masks. It sits at home while she cares for patients. “To think I’m going to work and am leaving this mask at home on my kitchen table, because the employer won’t let me wear it,” Scott said. “You feel sacrificial in a way.” News reports from Kentucky to Florida to California have documented nurses facing retaliation or pressure to step down when they have brought their own N95 respirators. A spokesperson for Michigan Medicine declined to answer questions about the hospital’s protective equipment protocols. In New York, the center of the US’s outbreak, nurses across the state report receiving surgical masks, not N95s, to wear when treating Covid-19 patients, according to a court affidavit submitted by Lisa Baum, the lead occupational health and safety representative for the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). So far, at least 16 NYSNA members have died from the coronavirus, and more than 1,000have tested positive, according tounion estimates. National Nurses United has pushed Washington lawmakers to pass legislation that would ramp up production of N95s by compelling the White House to invoke the Defense Production Act, a Korean war-era law that allows the federal government, in an emergency, to direct private business in the production and distribution of goods. It is also calling on Congress to require that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) put forth an emergency temporary standard to mandate that employers provide healthcare workers with protective equipment, including N95s masks, when they interact with patients suspected to have Covid-19. “Nurses are not afraid to care for our patients if we have the right protections,” said Bonnie Castillo, the executive director of National Nurses United, “but we’re not martyrs sacrificing our lives because our government and our employers didn’t do their job.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/28/us-face-masks-n95-surgical-coronavirus-health-workers
日本查出一个中国国籍无症状患者（已经几个月没回国了），可以把中国骂出银河系的节奏，纽约死16个人反而不是新闻
这不奇怪，有点常识的人一眼都可以看出，这群人属于某些机构组织，受过一定的训练，语言相似，行动一致。不管中国美国，任何对中国或民主党有关的事，都尽力往反面引导，以煽动仇视中国人民和民主党为目的。这个实在太明显了。
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不是死16个人。是死了16个医护人员。纽约死人已经是16个人的1000倍还多了。
这些人很多是智商极低的，但是嘴巴大，把华人搅得乱七八糟。沉默的大多数听之任之，这个版可能越来越糟。
各国医护人员战斗在这场最狡猾的病毒的的最前线，体现的救死扶伤职业精神是让人尊敬。
美国的医疗系统也是一样的，尤其是在口罩PPE呼吸机全部被扫光，3M口罩合格产品
不能及时进入美国医疗人员系统的牺牲是不可避免的。世界各国都有一样 哪个国家没有医疗人员的是牺牲? 以前SARS 时候不是一样的吗？
难道不是因为CDC所谓的口罩无用论导致的医护人员缺乏防护被传染的吗？
我看了日本媒体报道是的， 就相当于一个拿了绿卡的中国人，在美国被查出是无症状患者。 那个人的国籍是中国，但是居住地在日本。
米奇七毛真是一天不造谣就不痛快。谁说居住地是日本就不能去中国了。西雅图相亲哥居住地是西雅图不照样去了武汉染病。 日本病例明确写着这人虽然居住地是日本，但4/26进入成田，旅行史里写的中国。
你说怎么算就怎么算呗。我们不是在说美国的医护吗？你单独给中国PPE齐全的被传染的医护单独开贴，大家再讨论啊。
版上有个id在之前的医护感染贴里丧事喜唱，给我留下深刻印象，人可以不要脸到什么地方，看那个id可见一二。对美国医护毫无同情之心，我觉得这种人在美国的可能性比较低。除了你说的这群拿钱的，还有批心理扭曲的变态。它们上这个论坛根本不是来讨论问题的，而是发泄它们扭曲情绪的。
是在中国的感染的，我说的主体就是，你与其花那么多心思关心中国的无症状患者，不如花精力在纽约的死亡的医生案例上。
一辈子生活在地下室的蟑螂老鼠，借着这个机会出来秀下限，令人作呕🤮
日本查出一个中国国籍无症状患者（已经几个月没回国了），可以把中国骂出银河系的节奏，纽约死16个人反而不是新闻
minqidev 发表于 4/29/2020 9:03:21 AM
所以之前那个让轮子们GC半天的中国无症状病例是在日本感染的？？？
Beau 发表于 4/29/2020 11:04:30 AM
我看了日本媒体报道是的， 就相当于一个拿了绿卡的中国人，在美国被查出是无症状患者。 那个人的国籍是中国，但是居住地在日本。
minqidev 发表于 4/29/2020 11:21:25 AM
自己说的的造的谣都不承认，7毛这么好拿，你成天在论坛上各种贬低美国，造谣美国，给中国洗涤，以为大家不认识你？每次一有不利于美国和美国华人的新闻你就幸灾乐祸，你只不过是那美国医护的死当人血馒头攻击中国而已，以为大家不知道你这个五毛目的是什么？
白纸黑字的证据都敢踩，踩的七毛你们有良心吗。