Urge CDC Director Mandy Cohen to Reject HICPAC’s Draft and Protect Health Care Workers and Patients from Infectious Diseases! act.medicare4all.org/sign/urge-mand…

Tell your members of Congress: Support safe staffing for RNs! Add your name: act.medicare4all.org/letter/tell-th…

StopHICPAC Next HICPAC meeting (Nov 2-3) is now open for oral comment registration:
cdc.gov/hicpac/meeting…

#StopHICPAC 2022-2023 minutes from the HICPAC Workgroup updating the 2007 CDC isolation precautions guidelines can be found here: nationalnursesunited.org/cdc-hicpac-wor…. Check out January 19, 2023 minutes comparing respirators and surgical masks.

Good video on importance of fit testing: deohs.washington.edu/frcg/field-gro…

#StopHICPAC Workshop on Updating Guidelines and Standards for Aerosol Transmissible Diseases in Healthcare. Friday October 13, 12-3 PM ET. No cost. Everyone invited. rutgerstraining.sph.rutgers.edu/PreventATD/
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#StopHICPAC Please sign a follow-up letter to CDC, asking for public hearings on updates to their isolation precautions:
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#StopHICPAC June 2023 Minutes from HICPAC meeting are now available: cdc.gov/hicpac/pdf/202…

Free to everyone...
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Infectious Respiratory Viruses: Do we need a Workplace Health and Safety Standard?

#StopHICPAC journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…
Letter to CDC + CDC response now open access

#StopHICPAC medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

#StopHICPAC New article on August 2023 HICPAC meeting by Judy Stone:
forbes.com/sites/judyston…

#StopHICPAC If you'd like to record a comment that you didn't get to make at the HICPAC meeting, there is a zoom recording session on Thursday 1 PM ET. Email Yaneer Bar-Yam at [email protected] for a zoom link. Be sure to send your written comments to CDC: [email protected].

#StopHICPAC Without an infectious disease standard from OSHA, we're going to need to get CDC to improve its guidelines for aerosol transmission on our own. We need to all act together on this. Safe healthcare professionals means safe patients, communities, & families.

#StopHICPAC CDC and the HICPAC chair didn't even bother to say thank you for the public comments. I was gratified by how people talked about aerosol transmission and respirators. We know so much more than they do about what should be happening in healthcare.

#StopHICPAC #COVIDisAirborne Thank you to everyone who got a chance to make your comments during the 14-min public comment period at yesterday's HICPAC meeting. The stories were moving, informative, thoughtful, and deeply frustrating for me. youtube.com/watch?v=msjoFG…

#COVIDisAirborne HICPAC needs to completely rethink how we approach disease transmission and prevention in healthcare settings. It's not a matter of surgical masks vs. respirators, but revising our understanding that there are exposures to hazardous aerosols in many shared space.

#COVIDisAirborne If every healthcare professional had had an elastomeric respirator at the start of the pandemic, there would have been no shortages and everyone else could have had an N95 filtering facepiece respirator - workers and the public. Think where we'd be today.

#COVIDisAirborne NIOSH has been researching the use of elastomeric (reusable) respirators in healthcare for a number of years. cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/re…(EHMRs,filtration%20(e.g.%2C%20N95).

#StopHICPAC See the latest article on HICPAC by Judy Stone at Forbes. forbes.com/sites/judyston…
Where are the June 2023 minutes? Is this really a federal advisory committee? Look at the NACOSH (OSHA FAC) charter: osha.gov/advisorycommit…