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Opinion: #Covid easing means #MaskMandates at hospitals are ending. That’s unconscionable. | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/opinions/covid-mask-hospitals-health-patients-shihipar/index.html “Indeed, #hospitals that are removing #masking measures are applying the wrong lesson from combating Covid: Our success doesn’t mean we can get rid of all the measures that kept the vulnerable safe, but that we have identified new tools to use in maintaining health. Masks are one of them, and they don’t just help against Covid, but against other #respiratory illnesses,”
“Even after the rollout of vaccines, the risk from Covid has remained. A study during the Omicron wave in the UK showed that 5.4% of patients who got Covid in the hospital died because of the virus or because it contributed to their cause of death. “
“During the first #Omicron wave, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston reported an increase in hospital-acquired Covid cases. Though a mask mandate existed, the cases decreased dramatically after staff in the affected units were required to wear the more effective #N95 masks and patients began being tested daily – with no new cases in each of the outbreak units after the changes were instituted.”
“Similarly, in the UK, a study found that the use of #RespiratorMasks during the #Delta wave was associated with a 33% reduction in the likelihood of getting a #HospitalAcquired #Covid infection and a 21% reduction during the Alpha wave. Given this, hospitals should provide free N95s for patients and staff to use.”
And in the best example of reverse speak “The chief nursing officer at Nebraska Medicine, for example, told The Wall Street Journal that maintaining the mandate would not be “good for business,” given the pressure they received from patients to end the mandate after other facilities dropped theirs.” 
“the #People’sCDC, an advocacy group that aims to raise awareness and change policy around the pandemic, is pushing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to incorporate #Covid into its #HospitalAcquiredConditionReductionProgram, which curbs funding if hospitals fail to adequately maintain standards of prevention. This would help create an expectation of #masking across #hospitals.”
“ In the late 1800s, handwashing was adopted to prevent the spread of bacteria and viruses. After the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, health care workers started to wear gloves outside of the operating room to protect patients and providers. Covid has taught us we should now employ masks more widely.
No one wants to go to the hospital and come away with a new illness – so when we’re there, let’s mask up.”