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Scientists to C.D.C.: Set Air Standards for Workplaces Now – The New York Times
The agency has not fully reckoned with airborne transmission of the coronavirus in settings like hospitals, schools and meatpacking plants, experts said.
We really do need to stop this reuse and decontamination approach to N95s, she added. Were a year into this, and thats really not acceptable.
Hospitals, at least, tend to have good ventilation so health care workers are protected in other ways, the experts said. But in meatpacking plants, prisons, buses or grocery stores, where workers are exposed to the virus for long periods of time, the C.D.C. does not recommend high-quality respirators, nor does it endorse upgrades to ventilation.
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