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CDC’s Ruling May Have Led to More Deaths Among Healthcare Workers Over 3,500 healthcare workers have died throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. That figure would be tragic enough, but a new report suggests that CDC guidelines may actually have caused more deaths than they should have. Healthcare workers have been crippled by PPE shortages for months. Some nurses have been asked to reuse their masks, while others get access to N95 face masks, respirators, and hazmat suits. Since the start of the pandemic, providers performing “aerosol-generating” procedures were considered the most at risk, including those who insert a breathing tube into the patient’s trachea when they can no longer breathe on their own. Without enough PPE to go around, the CDC said that providers performing these procedures should get first access to N95s as they get close to infected patients. Meanwhile, other providers were asked to get by with just a surgical mask.

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