[BostonCard]

In a world with adequate PPE, one would wash hands, gown, glove, and mask before entering a patient's room, then doff the gown, glove, and mask and wash hands after seeing the patient and thus keep any contaminated material off your clothes.

Also, the whole purpose of hospital scrubs was to separate work and home clothes.  Now, traditionally scrubs were used to prevent clothes that may have gotten dirty outside the hospital from putting a patient at risk for infection, but it works the other way too.  Change into scrubs when you get to the hospital and change out of them before heading home to keep potentially contaminated scrubs out of your house.

BC

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How do we know to trust that reviewer more than the original author?  All we've been given in that tweet are 15 words.  They aren't engraved in a stone tablet brought down from the mountain.

(I happen to agree with those words, but that's not the point.)

I personally don't like all the tweets, often from self-appointed pundits, that we've been getting in this forum.  They are just institutionalized sound bites!

More on the trial:

https://www.brief19.com/?utm_source=figu...gn=March25

Here's another tweet thread dumping on it:

https://twitter.com/lucasmorin_eolc/stat...9931155456

I think it is part and parcel of the scientific method for research to be subject to criticism.  Over time, a consensus will emerge, which will depend on multiple studies.  I wouldn't necessarily put more stock in the critique than the study, but rather in the accumulated evidence that is generated over time.

BC

[BostonCard]

In a world with adequate PPE, one would wash hands, gown, glove, and mask before entering a patient's room, then doff the gown, glove, and mask and wash hands after seeing the patient and thus keep any contaminated material off your clothes.

Also, the whole purpose of hospital scrubs was to separate work and home clothes.  Now, traditionally scrubs were used to prevent clothes that may have gotten dirty outside the hospital from putting a patient at risk for infection, but it works the other way too.  Change into scrubs when you get to the hospital and change out of them before heading home to keep potentially contaminated scrubs out of your house.

BC

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How do we know to trust that reviewer more than the original author?  All we've been given in that tweet are 15 words.  They aren't engraved in a stone tablet brought down from the mountain.

(I happen to agree with those words, but that's not the point.)

I personally don't like all the tweets, often from self-appointed pundits, that we've been getting in this forum.  They are just institutionalized sound bites!

More on the trial:

https://www.brief19.com/?utm_source=figu...gn=March25

Here's another tweet thread dumping on it:

https://twitter.com/lucasmorin_eolc/stat...9931155456

I think it is part and parcel of the scientific method for research to be subject to criticism.  Over time, a consensus will emerge, which will depend on multiple studies.  I wouldn't necessarily put more stock in the critique than the study, but rather in the accumulated evidence that is generated over time.

BC