We ARE in a surge, we ARE seeing increases in cases and hospitalizations, prior infection does NOT prevent future infection, repeat infections=worse outcomes, and we aren't capturing near the number of actual cases: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/health/covid-case-data-wave/index.html , Half our population is considered vulnerable. We matter! We CAN stop this! #MaskUp Stop telling people we are a necessary sacrifice. Stop neglecting long covid. Start calling for #n95 #masks #MasksInHealthcare https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/01/gqnt-s01.html

If calling for actions that you know harms/kills a specific group of people isn't eugenics then I don't know what is, and that includes neglecting to call for safety precautions like masking when you are well aware that the lack there of will cause this harm.
#Fauci #MasksInHealthcare #Vulnerable #CovidIsNotOver #covid

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66643426

More hospitals reinstating masking policies this week: United Health Services (4 hospitals under them) , Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa, Medical Center, Auburn Community, Upstate University in Syracuse, along with UMass Memorial in Mass.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/infection-control/kaiser-hospital-latest-to-reinstate-masking.html

#MasksInHealthcare

There's something in the air besides Covid right now... Awareness, if I dare to hope, the tides could be turning: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/news/umass-memorial-mask-mandate-staff-covid/?fbclid=IwAR1rfcFqvUTboVKnlTGFintfxiuFiSk-36irqEVhjEfUaJGBm0oPT8Vy9SM
#MasksInHealthcare

We made the news!: #hicpac #cdc #MasksInHealthcare #covid19

https://sourcenm.com/2023/08/24/patients-and-advocates-asked-a-cdc-advisory-committee-to-be-more-transparent-then-their-comments-disappeared/

@whn is having an after-HICPAC-meeting Debrief at 2:30pm ET (August 22nd right after the HICPAC public meeting). The Debrief will be at https://t.co/O1ukaoKPRg to discuss the meeting. If you are one of the lucky ones who gets to make an oral comment during the actual HICPAC meeting (from 12-2:30pm, tomorrow), or if you are sending in your comment within 3 days to them, here are some helpful talking points: https://whn.global/hicpac-meeting-talking-points/ @whn@a.gup.pe #N95 #MasksInHealthcare

If you've got the capacity/spoons to sign and/or join in public comment:

"[National Nurses United has] concerns that the CDC may be headed in the wrong direction on multiple fronts, including failing to fully recognize aerosol transmission, incorporating crisis standards into infection control guidance, and downgrading personal protective equipment for health care workers."

https://act.nnu.org/letter/Urge-the-CDC-and-HICPAC-recognize-aerosol-transmission/

Learn more: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/how-the-cdc-could-further-weaken-infection-control-w-jane-thomason-081723

#covidisnotover #masksinhealthcare #bringbackmasks

Now is the time to make a difference, before it's too late. We need reform to prevent all these hospital acquired COVID infections.

Don’t let HICPAC weaken protections!

Register for the public meeting: https://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/meeting.html

AND

Sign WHN's letter telling HICPAC their draft guidelines DO NOT adequately protect healthcare workers and patients!

Sign: https://forms.gle/oDZTjY5yHWwqRwjn6

#covid19 #COVIDisAirborne #MasksInHealthcare

@whn @whn@a.gup.pe

Also: 3 days left to sign WHN’s letter to tell HICPAC their draft guidelines DO NOT adequately protect healthcare workers and patients!

Sign here: https://forms.gle/oDZTjY5yHWwqRwjn6

#covid19 #COVIDisAirborne #MasksInHealthcare @whn

Make our voices heard: We need N95s in healthcare! We have 3 days left to register for the Public HICPAC meeting (you CAN, but don’t have to speak!) Don’t let HICPAC weaken protections! Register for the public meeting: https://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/meeting.html

Sign our letter telling HICPAC their draft guidelines DO NOT adequately protect healthcare workers and patients! Sign: https://forms.gle/oDZTjY5yHWwqRwjn6

#covid19 #COVIDisAirborne #MasksInHealthcare

@whn @whn@a.gup.pe

Make our voices heard! We have 4 days left to register for the Public HICPAC meeting (you CAN, but don’t have to speak!) Don’t let HICPAC weaken protections! Register for the public meeting: https://cdc.gov/hicpac/meeting.html…

Sign our letter telling HICPAC their draft guidelines DO NOT adequately protect healthcare workers and patients! Sign: https://forms.gle/oDZTjY5yHWwqRwjn6

#covid19 #COVIDisAirborne #MasksInHealthcare

@whn @whn@a.gup.pe

HICPAC is going to be voting soon on infection-control procedures in hospitals and their last meeting did NOT inspire confidence in their ability to make a decision that will protect patients and healthcare workers, suggesting surgical masks for when Covid becomes seasonal-- which is just wrong under so many accounts ( see backgrounder: https://whn.global/prevent-airborne-transmission-in-healthcare/ ).

We need better protections in healthcare:

Sign Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehjAoSdenvtQYpAeq-DkPTJ55wI0eKBXPywzLavW-KNp4A2w/viewform

#MasksInHealthcare #covid #COVIDisAirborne #n95

Why We Mask (updated): 19 Reasons

https://the-maskers-comic.yolasite.com/why-we-mask/

#covid #covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #LongCOVID #LongCovidKids #MasksInHealthcare #MaskUp

Getting N95 recommendations solidified for airborne infections in healthcare settings is of utmost importance. Take action with a sign-on letter from WHN .

Sign Here: https://forms.gle/oDZTjY5yHWwqRwjn6

and for more info see a backgrounder here on why we need to reject HICPACs June 2023 drafted recommendations: https://whn.global/prevent-airborne-transmission-in-healthcare/

#MasksInHealthcare #covid #covid19 #LongCOVID #COVIDisAirborne

Getting N95 recommendations solidified for airborne infections in healthcare settings is of utmost importance. We don't have this controversy for firefighters and wildfire smoke, we shouldn't have it for workers healthcare. Take action with a sign-on letter from @whn here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehjAoSdenvtQYpAeq-DkPTJ55wI0eKBXPywzLavW-KNp4A2w/viewform?emci=9e763a9e-1836-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&emdi=c12567eb-0837-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&ceid=14228541 and for more info see a backgrounder here on why we need to reject HICPACs June 2023 drafted recommendations: https://whn.global/prevent-airborne-transmission-in-healthcare/

#n95 #MasksInHealthcare #CovidIsNotOver #covid #LongCOVID #MaskUp

According to a recent poll in Scotland, most people overwhelmingly favor bringing respirator masks back in healthcare (contrary to the current media narrative, which wants to push that it's unpopular). Fight back against conjured antimask propoganda, and #MaskUp . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23662884.poll-herald-readers-back-masks-hospitals-care-homes/?ref=twtrec #CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks #MasksInHealthcare

That is why the #1 priority to our household right now is getting safe access to in-person healthcare, and that means we need N95s in healthcare facilities, and we need that... yesterday. We need providers to fight for us, or we will lose trust and faith in them. We need society to mask there, or we also lose trust and faith in them. #BringBackMasks #N95 #MasksInHealthcare #MaskUp #covid19 #CovidIsntOver #COVIDisAirborne

Exposing vulnerable patients to unmasked, sick healthcare providers is NOT "patients first".

PREVENTABLE (with simple, cheap PPE) healthcare-acquired #COVID19 or anything else should be a NEVER event.

Maskless healthcare is malpractice.

MANDATE #MasksInHealthcare
#healthcare #HealthEquity

RT @joaquinlife@twitter.com

What do we want? Masks in healthcare!

When do we want it? Now!

Join us this Saturday, June 17th at 2PM at Kaiser in LA off Sunset for WEEK 8 of PROTESTS to keep #MasksInHealthcare settings! Let’s keep growing the movement to protect our families and communities! #MasksSaveLives

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joaquinlife/status/1669178194111639553

RT @joaquinlife@twitter.com

What do we want? Masks in healthcare!

When do we want it? Now!

Join us this Saturday, June 17th at 2PM at Kaiser in LA off Sunset for WEEK 8 of PROTESTS to keep #MasksInHealthcare settings! Let’s keep growing the movement to protect our families and communities! #MasksSaveLives

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joaquinlife/status/1669178194111639553