Thread by @AbraarKaran

1/ If you are one of the many healthcare workers who have reached out to me privately about how your hospital won’t let you use N95 masks except during “aerosol generating procedures”— read this, because it’s BS.

#covid19

theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m…

2/ “Yet in recent months, Klompas and researchers in Israel have documented cases where workers using surgical masks and face shields became sick with Covid after providing routine patient care.”

3/ “A new wave of research now shows that several of those procedures were not the most hazardous. Recent studies have determined that a basic cough produces about 20 times more particles than intubation.”

4/ “The whole thing is upside-down the way it is currently framed,” said Dr Michael Klompas, a Harvard Medical School associate professor who called the phrase “aerosol-generating procedure” a “misnomer” in a recent paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association.”