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Widely used hospital gowns show signs of exposing healthcare workers to infection.

Hospital gowns that were thought to offer protection in isolation units or from bodily fluids are not as safe as originally thought to be.

Isolation gowns are supposed to protect health care workers from splattered bodily fluids. But new studies suggest that too much liquid seeps through some disposable gowns, creating a risk of infection.

Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed in recent and ongoing laboratory tests and may fall short of safety standards, leaving health care workers with a greater risk of infection than advertised. A peer-reviewed academic study, published to little notice amid the coronavirus pandemic,

Visibly filmsy "isolation" gowns, OK'd by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.