The CDC/HICPAC plan to loosen infection control in healthcare settings is back.
HICPAC meets tomorrow 11/2/23 to finalize the problematic updates (the vote was delayed from August) but is accepting written comment until Mon, Nov 6.
CDC is poised to weaken infection control in health care workers and patients in order to give corporations that own health care facilities the “flexibility” to prioritize costs over care. People are going into hospitals/clinics and coming out infected with Covid and other infections, leading to death, disability, long term complications and/or newly acquired illnesses. Estimates of health care acquired infections run as high as 1 in 6 children in the ICU, 1 in 10 babies in ICU, 1 in 5 overall in ICU, and 1 in 25 in general population.
The whole thing has lacked transparency and the committee contains industry members with conflicts of interest while lacking a single voting member with expertise in aerosol science.
You can submit a comment to hicpac@cdc.gov to urge the CDC's HICPAC members to involve aerosol experts, increase transparency, to recognize aerosol transmission of SARS-2, and to require airborne precautions that include respirators, ventilation, filtration, and isolation in healthcare settings. You must include your name, address, organization if applicable, & topic being addressed.
...the passengers on the Titanic knew about how many people there were on board, and had opportunity to take stock of how many life boats there were in the days prior to the iceberg.
There were observable facts that should have caused them to demand every lifeboat was as full as possible before it was lowered, but the propaganda was that the ship was unsinkable....
As the first lifeboats were lowered, survivors reported no signs of panic. That is largely due to the crew insisting that another ship would be by presently, and the fact that the band played on.
Nothing to see here. Everything is urgently normal...
Ultimately, the ship builders - or those who are tasked with creating or changing the systems we live in - are to blame for forcing us to make impossible daily choices.
But they like to take shortcuts, because shortcuts are cheap.
But we’ve hit an iceberg. People like @AshishKJha46 have secured their lifeboats: highly ventilated schools for their kids, access to testing and antivirals, great insurance should they become disabled.
He’s telling you the ship is unsinkable. He’s wrong....
There’s been an attempt to define a list of conditions that may mean you have Long Covid, but that is just the tip of the iceberg....
Friends, they’re shouting “You do you,” from the last of the lifeboats.
It’s time to build our rafts and get comfortable with N95s for the foreseeable future...
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