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@luckytran@med-mastodon.comCity of Hope in Duarte, California, has maintained masking requirements, and this has prevented hospital-acquired #COVID19 there entirely, according to Vijay Trisal, MD, chief medical officer at City of Hope.
“Our policies enabled us to achieve zero nosocomial infections, zero outbreaks.”
@luckytran Catalonia only relaxed its masking requirements in medical contexts a couple of months back, and in most cases I've seen, practitioners will still ask what you're more comfortable with at the start of a consultation.
If you can get reliable data for the area, might be worth a look.
@luckytran What's that you say? Covid-19 is spread mostly on droplets, so a mask that stops most of those droplets greatly reduces the risk of spreading infection? It's that simple?
Why wasn't I told this before!?
(sorry for the bad attitude)
Political players should be banned from hospital boards, or at least outnumbered 3:1 by doctors carrying baseball bats (for emphasis, you understand)
Regeneron refuses to do this. They have Covid outbreaks every few days. I went over two years without so much as a sniffle when working for an insurance company, but as soon as I started there, I was exposed and infected within two months. Every week, it was a roulette to see how many people in just our group were going to be out with it.
@luckytran
Every nosocomial COVID infection is preventable.
But in my home state, forget about preventing nosocomial COVID infections -- they are not even tracking them anymore, at least not in the public dataset that has nosocomial COVID info from before the end of the public health emergency.
#OpenData
I *hope* that hospital-acquired COVID is still being tracked, even though it's no longer made public in this dataset....
Last month I made a Massachusetts Public Records Act request to the Department of Public Health for records of how the state is measuring the risk of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission.
They met the initial deadline to respond by asking for an extension, which ran out yesterday without any update.
The latest HHS guidelines for federal reporting on this(linked below, page 15) changed "Hospital onset" COVID reporting to optional from required in June, just FYI. Not sure what the state of Massachusetts is requiring, locally.
@BE
Circumstantial evidence suggesting that at least one MA hospital is still tracking nosocomial COVID:
UMass Memorial reinstated a staff mask requirement for patient encounters. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/news/umass-memorial-mask-mandate-staff-covid/
If the goal were to reduce staff exposures/cases/absenteeism, then presumably they'd want masks in staff-only areas too, and not just one-way masking with patients but two-way. So maybe they are specifically concerned with provider-to-patient transmission? Lots of assumptions....
2023: We know how to save health and lives, turns out it’s a really simple set of measures, we did it before, but we just don’t care enough to actually do it any more.
@luckytran
As a life member of the City of Hope (the charity), I'm gratified that they have done the right thing.
@luckytran 
I don't know about if they managed to keep Covid free, but my deceased Father in Law had his cancer treatments partially also in specialized departments, that went a bit beyond mask mandate. E.g. every time before he was admitted he was tested and had to wait 2-3 hours for the results outside the hospital department airlock. But then, cancer patients tend to be immune compromised patients. COVID-19 is literally deathly for them.