{"id":1534,"date":"2023-09-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2023-11-26T06:31:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T11:31:03","slug":"expected-cdc-guidance-on-n95-masks-outrages-health-care-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/expected-cdc-guidance-on-n95-masks-outrages-health-care-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Expected CDC guidance on N95 masks outrages health care workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nurses, researchers and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>A CDC advisory committee has been updating its 2007 standards for infection control in hospitals this year. Many health care professionals and scientists expressed outrage after the group released a draft of its proposals in June.<\/p>\n<p>The draft controversially concluded that N95 face masks are equivalent to looser, surgical face masks in certain settings \u2014 and that doctors and nurses need to wear only surgical masks when treating patients infected by \u201ccommon, endemic\u201d viruses, like those that cause the seasonal flu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurses, researchers and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/expected-cdc-guidance-on-n95-masks-outrages-health-care-workers\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expected CDC guidance on N95 masks outrages health care workers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101,288,18,25,23,245,24,14,371,51,143],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cdc","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-covid-19","tag-hospital-acquired-infections","tag-hospitals","tag-n95-respirators","tag-nosocomial-infections","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-standards","tag-united-states","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}