Ontopic Health Thread: post your AIDS, diseases and infekshunz here.

august said:
@fly the average person may come into contact with any number of people in a given day, but there's a lower chance of any given person they meet to be sick. with healthcare, there's a higher concentration of sick people we come into contact by nature of the job. we do see people for non-illness reasons, too, but on any day we see plenty of people for things like cough, URI, etc so there's a higher risk of exposure. that's also why we have to be screened for TB more often than the general population, why we're required to have hepatitis vaccinations, etc.
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So if masks help healthcare workers avoid exposure, it seems pretty silly to suggest that it won't help everyone else.
 
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fly said:
So if masks help healthcare workers avoid exposure, it seems pretty silly to suggest that it won't help everyone else.
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I never said/suggested you only need them if you're sick, you did. I even said we do make them available for patients (just not by the truckloads).

technically, the way it works if aerosolizarion is expected, the infected person would wear a mask to help keep it in, and the healthcare worker or any other uninfected person would need an N95 to keep it out, but most of the time masks are just fine for both.
 
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