Mar 15, 2021 8:10am A widespread group of experts insist that N95s be reserved for those performing aerosol-generating procedures and that it’s safe for front-line workers to care for COVID-19 patients wearing less-protective surgical masks. (Getty Images)
Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in healthcare was thought to be when a doctor put a breathing tube down the trachea of a critically ill COVID-19 patient.
Those performing such “aerosol-generating” procedures, often in an intensive care unit, got the best protective gear even if there wasn’t enough to go around, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. And for anyone else working with COVID-19 patients, until a month ago, a surgical mask was considered sufficient.
By Denise Mann
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, March 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) Black Americans who live in rural areas are two to three times more likely to die from diabetes and high blood pressure compared with white rural folks, and this gap hasn t changed much over the last 20 years, new research shows.
The study spanned from 1999 through 2018, and will be published as a research letter in the March 23 issue of the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Experts not involved in the research worry that this racial divide may have increased due to restrictions that COVID-19 has placed on daily life.
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