Thread by @LazarusLong13

Doctors and nurses get infected in their own hospitals unfortunately.

But there is one hospital in America that has had zero of these infections in over 25 years.

Not one single doctor or nurse in that hospital has been infected.

Not one.

Would you believe that it's a hospital dedicated to an airborne disease, tuberculosis?

The Texas Center for Infectious Diseases, while not a large hospital, does have 170 employees.

In 1996, they gave everyone reusable N100 elastomeric respirators.

elemental.medium.com/a-tiny-hospita…

Since then, no Hospital Acquired Infections. And - they saved a ton of money by using them instead of N95's.

Not only do they save money, but the respirators are very comfortable. I wear a 3M version myself, and they are so much more comfortable than scratchy FFP3's.

They are also much more protective:

And the HCW's loved them;

I understand if this sounds too good to be true. Here's their website:



At the bottom of that page, is their Respiratory FAQ:


Here's their contact info: dshs.texas.gov/tcid/default.s…
dshs.texas.gov/tcid/Respirato…

Here's the same basic story on this hospital, for your verification purposes:
kens5.com/article/news/h…

Late addition to this surprisingly popular thread:

Regular folks wear them, too:







Look for N100.
Patientknowhow.com
cleanaircrew.org/elastomeric-re…

One more addition...Nicolas has forgotten more about respiratory PPE than you can shake an N100 at.

Absolutely endorse this webinar.

This is the viral TB hospital thread where no HCW has caught TB because of elastomeric respirators.

And it now has happened for CoVid.

And yet another zero nosocomial transmission of airborne diseases for HCWs.

Finland, FFP2/FFP3.