Sep 7, 2020 | INSIGHTS from Behind the Mask
The main transmitters are people, as hosts of the coronavirus. COVID spreads through water droplets that contain the virus secreted by an infected person. Secretions include saliva and respiratory droplets released from mouths or noses of infected people when they...
Sep 1, 2020 | INSIGHTS from Behind the Mask
We are facing a serious problem: a shortage of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients. And yet, we have a piece of state-based protectionist law called “certificate of need” or “CON Law” that is “artificially” suppressing the amount of medical equipment, beds and...
Aug 28, 2020 | INSIGHTS from Behind the Mask
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s rule of thumb is to have ready “6 to 8 weeks” of PPE stockpile, while the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) also recommends the same amount of stockpiling. These numbers have been analysed long...
Aug 25, 2020 | INSIGHTS from Behind the Mask
Do we close our office? Call the CDC? Get tested? No one expects hospitals to be germ and infection free. Expectations are LOW given the work environment. But for private practices this may often be the worst-case scenario. Could they “blacklist” us?Patients expect...
Aug 22, 2020 | INSIGHTS from Behind the Mask
By late spring, the American healthcare sector was so desperate for PPE that even car giant Ford and cap-maker Stormy Kromer started making masks to fill the gap. It didn’t work…PPE inventory is dangerously low in August. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Aug 18, 2020 | INSIGHTS from Behind the Mask
I love moonshine, but finding some that doesn’t give me a whopping hangover isn’t easy. That’s because home brews can be both amazing AND inconsistent in quality. So why would it be any different for masks? There is HUGE VARIATION in effectiveness. If patients are...
