Doctors and nurses on front lines of battle against coronavirus increasingly anguished over hospital-imposed rationing of masks, gowns and other protective gear.
Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.are increasingly anguished over the hospital-imposed rationing of masks, gowns and other protective gear, restrictions they say are exposing them to unnecessary risks at the worst possible time.
“I’m not trying to point fingers,” the neurologist said. “Friends all over the country are asking me the same thing. Why are we not protecting the physicians?”guidelines from the Centers for Disease ControlMedical personnel wearing protective equipment screen people referred by doctors for COVID-19 testing, March 20, 2020, at a drive-thru testing station in Spokane, Wash.
“We are now creating our own [masks] with plastic bags rubber band and nasal cannula taped to the top of face shields,” wrote a Long Beach, California doctor in that same group. At New York’s Presbyterian Hospital, an internal memo from the chief surgeon, pointed to an acute supply shortage. Dr. Craig Smith wrote that the hospital normally uses 4,000 regular surgical masks per day. But right now, they are consuming 40,000 masks each day, with the demand is expected to grow to 70,000 per day.
Philadelphia Medical Reserve Corps volunteers, all of whom are nurses, put on their protective outfits as a coronavirus testing site prepared to open in South Philadelphia on Friday, March 20, 2020.Providing medical staff even one mask to use each day is probably too much, Smith wrote, but “is an important concession to their emotional needs. In theory the mask is to be used only if the person becomes symptomatic.
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