CDC advises health workers to use homemade masks or bandanas

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As healthcare workers and hospitals face shortages across the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new guidelines for using face masks.

Now the CDC is advising using homemade masks, such as a bandanna or scarf, as a “last resort” to treat patients with Covid-19. This guideline is recommended only if no other face masks are available to the healthcare worker.

Although these guidelines were updated to allow this practice, the CDC still acknowledged that a bandana or scarf tied around the face was not considered personal protection equipment.

“Their capability to protect HCP (healthcare professionals) is unknown,” the CDC wrote. “Caution should be exercised when considering this option.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-cdc-advises-health-workers-215931387.html

[marble falls]

1. Thanks a lot President Trump, you've reduced us from going to the moon to winging it. Idiot.

[uppityperson]

2. O. M. G.

[OhioChick]

3. What the F....... n/t

[Leghorn21]

4. There is no "CDC". I think there was one a few years back, but it's long gone.

Too bad - a shipshape Center for Disease Control operation could have been the difference between life and death for a whole lot of people

oh fkn well