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If the personnel there wear masks and require all visitors to wear masks, then go. Many people are forgoing routine checkups, and this will lead to extra death
by tomohawk 6y ago
If the personnel there wear masks and require all visitors to wear masks, then go.
Many people are forgoing routine checkups, and this will lead to extra death and morbidity going forward.
EDIT: also worth checking: some facilities have been set aside for non-covid symptom patients. In some areas, whole hospitals are this way.
- _bxg1 6y agoI checked and mine filters people by symptoms at the door and has symptomatic people wait in their cars. But then, something crazy like 70% are asymptomatic, right?
- tomohawk 6y agoI saw a recent study of an Italian town where they exhaustively tested everyone. It was something like 40% got it but had no symptoms. The main means of transmission appears to be when people are talking, coughing, sneezing. If someone is talking without a mask on, they are spraying droplets everywhere. If they have a mask on, then the risk is much lower. If you have a mask on, too, then it is even lower. In Singapore, medical personnel had excellent success by wearing surgical masks at all times, and wearing N95 masks only when performing procedures where lots of droplets were expected, such as extubating a patient.