CDC changes guidelines:

[SamKnause]

1. If you are a doctor or nurse, have been exposed but not showing signs, you continue working with a mask.

2. If you can't get a mask wear a bandanna or scarf.


Reported on CNN by Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

He is still talking.

Another Dr. is up and Dr. Sanjay Gupta will be on again.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Oh my: 2. If you can't get a mask wear a bandanna or scarf.

[SamKnause]

3. He is still talking about it.

[blueinredohio]

2. That's what I told my husband.

If we need a mask and can't find one we'll wear a bandana.

[Champp]

4. OK, Republicans

[Chainfire]

5. And this is where

The richest country in the world is today.

We are about to get a severe lesson on the failure of planning.

Poor patients delusional from fever will think they are being robbed.

[OhioChick]

6. That's fucked up n/t

[SamKnause]

7. Yes it is.

Another in a long line of fuck-ups.

DeWine announced today that Ohio has only 50 tests.


The news has repeatedly stated:


There is a shortage on swabs they use for the tests.

There is a shortage of gloves.

There is a shortage of all types of masks.

There is a shortage of gowns.

There is a shortage of ventilators. (shortage of operators)

There is a shortage of drs.

There is a shortage of nurses.

There is a shortage of hospital beds.

[OhioChick]

10. There's going to be a lot of death

And a majority of the population have no idea (or don't believe) what's coming.

[shanti]

19. Was watching a covid tracker

and the worldwide cases went up 11000 in less than 24 hours.

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. Yes it is. These guidelines reflect the current dismal reality.

I don't fault those who drew up this guideline. I think you can guess who I fault.

Hint: He dissolved the Pandemic Planning Task Force.

[dalton99a]

17. +1

[Iliyah]

8. Huh? . ..

That does not sound right. And the head of the CDC is who?

[SamKnause]

9. Dr. Sanjay Gupta said the new guidelines are posted on the CDC website.

Dr. Robert Redfield is the head of the CDC.

Another suggestion was to cut up gowns and make your own masks.

They are discussing it again right now on CNN.

Governor Cuomo is on now.

[Baclava]

11. Wild Wild West, doctors in scarves, stay far far far away from hospitals

[spinbaby]

13. I just checked with a nurse working in Pittsburgh

She said that they had an adequate supply of N-95 masks, but that they were now locked away because visitors were stealing them. WTH?

[Baclava]

14. Not surprising, civilization is a very thin veneer, its everyone for themselves now

Countries are shutting their borders, cancelling flights from the USA, we are all considered infected

[dalton99a]

15. USA! USA! No masks for doctors in a pandemic

Trump's horror show continues

[BeckyDem]

16. This is insane.

[crickets]

18. My god, this is so unfair to the medical professionals we are depending on.

It's so unfair to everyone. Why isn't someone talking about re-purposing a factory or two to deal with this? Masks will still be needed months from now, so we need to quit ordering them and start making them.

eta- oh, look! jobs!