MetroHealth employees must wear masks, starting Monday (OH)

[OhioChick]

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Starting Monday, all MetroHealth employees must wear masks to halt the stop of the coronavirus. All patients and visitors must also wear masks.

This will allow the health system to resume needed medical procedures, like stress tests, mammograms and colonoscopies, says MetroHealth President and CEO Dr. Akram Boutros.

“As a healthcare system we have another very important responsibility, that is to provide our patients and community with the preventive care and screenings that are critical to keeping us healthy," Boutros said in a video to employees.

Ohioans have strictly followed stay-at-home orders, lowering the peak the coronavirus curve from an original estimate of 60,000 people a day to 500 cases a day.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/04/metrohealth-employees-must-wear-masks-starting-monday.html

They must've gotten masks in. Their ICU nurses weren't even given surgical masks to wear all this time.

[CottonBear]

1. Everyone in the entire county needs masks.

Most people need washable fabric masks. Essential workers need medical grade, but not necessarily N-95, masks. All health care workers need full PPE, including N-95 masks.