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Santa Clara County has reimposed the mask mandate in health facilities. Those in power have difficulty relinquishing it.

• amluto 3y ago
  On the list of obnoxious regulatory overreach that regulators could engage in, requiring masks in health care facilities seems fine, actually. Maybe even extremely wise. When someone is sick enough that they ought to stay home, but they go somewhere indoors anyway and wait around for a while, where is it? Likely a health care facility. And there are tons of nasty, often drug-resistant, pathogens that are largely transmitted in health care facilities. And a lot of people visitng said facilities are also vulnerable and/or immunocompromised and/or are taking medicines (e.g. antibiotics) that substantially increase the risk of getting infected by otherwise-not-so-harmful things. So, please, bring on the infection control measures in health care facilities. Masks, air filtration, ventilation, far-UVC, hand washing, sanitizer, you name it.