05-01-2020, 04:25 PM
Not related to this article, but to the subject.
I was talking to an ER doc who has seen lots of Covid patients and he is starting to believe that surgical masks are good enough for preventing getting infected. While he uses an N95 when intubating, he only gets to use a surgical mask at other times. And thus far, no infection. Maybe he (and his colleagues) has been lucky, but at least a better anecdote than hearing about surgical masks being inadequate. =)
I was talking to an ER doc who has seen lots of Covid patients and he is starting to believe that surgical masks are good enough for preventing getting infected. While he uses an N95 when intubating, he only gets to use a surgical mask at other times. And thus far, no infection. Maybe he (and his colleagues) has been lucky, but at least a better anecdote than hearing about surgical masks being inadequate. =)