Thread by @DrEricDing

So, if I need to goto a hospital, I want to be safe and know I won’t be cross-infected. Yet, 20% of #COVID19 hospitalization today are **acquired in hospitals** after arrival! This is up 5x from ~4% in Jan. All HCWs need #N95–Yet CDC still does not require it! 🧵

HT @DrWilliamKu

2) Let this sink in— Some hospitals are asking patients and visitors to remove their N95 masks when they enter. 😱

The hospitals claim they're following @CDCgov guidelines. For many public health advocates, that's exactly the problem!!!

By @rachael_levy
politico.com/news/2022/03/1…

3) A recent POLITICO analysis found that more than 3,000 patients were infected with Covid each week in January, during the Omicron wave. politico.com/news/2022/02/1…

4) Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease specialist who advises the Biden administration, said there is “no doubt” that the lack of the more-protective face masks contributed to those grim totals. He warned @CDCDirector — nobody responded.

5) Advocates for those with disabilities and the immunocompromised have pleaded with the administration to recommend N95s for everyday use indoors. **The CDC declined to do so*** and acknowledged in January that cloth masks provide less protection than surgical masks or N95s.

6) The CDC also waited until January before telling Americans they could use N95s without harming the health workers who need them.
“The CDC has been years behind on the science,” said Osterholm.

Dear @CDCDirector — hey hey, ho ho…

7) While #BA2 is surging and now BA2 hospitalizations growing… I hope hospitals HCWs are protected and protect patients who come in.

https://twitter.com/ClaudetteGGibs1/status/1504534703654662178

8) we are living in a new era of pure stupidity. Ignoring obvious need to protect ourselves from an airborne virus, all while a new super infectious variant is at our doorstep in the Us, and causing hospitalization surges in Europe. Like, what the hell is @CDCDirector thinking?

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1504835672741396489