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US's largest registered nurses union calls on CDC to bring back the mask
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:04 am
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:04 am
The largest union for registered nurses in the U.S. called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to bring back recommendations for universal masking in public regardless of people’s vaccination status.
The National Nurses Union (NNU) in a Monday letter to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky requested that the agency reinstitute guidelines for all people to wear masks in public and in close proximity to those outside their household.
NNU Executive Director Bonnie Castillo pointed to a 16 percent uptick in U.S. COVID-19 cases from last week, according to CDC data, as well as rises in case counts in more than 40 states and hospitalizations in more than 25 states as reasons to return to previous, stricter guidelines.
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“NNU strongly urges the CDC to reinstate universal masking, irrespective of vaccination status, to help reduce the spread of the virus, especially from infected individuals who do not have any symptoms,” Castillo wrote in the letter. “Our suggestions are based on science and the precautionary principle and are made in order to protect nurses, other essential workers, patients, and the public from Covid-19."
The union also cited the World Health Organization’s (WHO) call for vaccinated people to continue wearing masks in public amid the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant. Several U.S. officials and experts have said the WHO’s guidance reflects the state of the pandemic worldwide, which overall has seen lower vaccination rates than the U.S. LINK
The National Nurses Union (NNU) in a Monday letter to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky requested that the agency reinstitute guidelines for all people to wear masks in public and in close proximity to those outside their household.
NNU Executive Director Bonnie Castillo pointed to a 16 percent uptick in U.S. COVID-19 cases from last week, according to CDC data, as well as rises in case counts in more than 40 states and hospitalizations in more than 25 states as reasons to return to previous, stricter guidelines.
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“NNU strongly urges the CDC to reinstate universal masking, irrespective of vaccination status, to help reduce the spread of the virus, especially from infected individuals who do not have any symptoms,” Castillo wrote in the letter. “Our suggestions are based on science and the precautionary principle and are made in order to protect nurses, other essential workers, patients, and the public from Covid-19."
The union also cited the World Health Organization’s (WHO) call for vaccinated people to continue wearing masks in public amid the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant. Several U.S. officials and experts have said the WHO’s guidance reflects the state of the pandemic worldwide, which overall has seen lower vaccination rates than the U.S. LINK
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Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:05 am to Jbird
frick those people....
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:09 am to Jbird
It was just a matter of time.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:10 am to Jbird
Nurses need to focus on changing bed pans and giving better sponge baths.
I have zero interest in their opinion on whether or not I should be wearing a mask.
I have zero interest in their opinion on whether or not I should be wearing a mask.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:11 am to Jbird
Muh science
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:14 am to Jbird
Go back to making shitty Tik Tok videos and getting sloshed on your off hours, Nurse Jackie.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:15 am to Jbird
Can we bring back the Tic Toc videos for all of these "heroes" while we are at it?
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:17 am to Jbird
Mask?
Virologists don't wear a simple paper mask to protect themselves. Why is the nurses union confused about the effectiveness of a bandana or paper mask?
Virologists don't wear a simple paper mask to protect themselves. Why is the nurses union confused about the effectiveness of a bandana or paper mask?
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:17 am to Jbird
"uptick in cases"
did the WHO quietly increase the threshold limits of the PCR test like they did at the beginning of the plandemic?
did the WHO quietly increase the threshold limits of the PCR test like they did at the beginning of the plandemic?
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:17 am to Jbird
I've got an idea. Let's lower all nurses pay to $15/hr.
It will lower the cost of Healthcare.
It will lower the cost of Healthcare.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:18 am to Jbird
They allowed us some crumbs to have our 4th of July cookout… now time for a dark rest of the year.
No more freedoms, only misery .
Frick this shite
No more freedoms, only misery .
Frick this shite
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:19 am to Lawyered
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No more freedoms, only misery .
I say bring it on now... Might as well get the show on the road....
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:20 am to jawnybnsc
“Nearly 1/3 of nursing home workers in NYS have not been vaccinated.” Says the NYPost. “Absolutely insane” says a local assemblyman. Agree with him.
No Vaccine, no work, no school, no in-person shopping. You have a right not to be vaccinated. I have the right to protect my kids.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) July 13, 2021
No Vaccine, no work, no school, no in-person shopping. You have a right not to be vaccinated. I have the right to protect my kids.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) July 13, 2021
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:21 am to Jbird
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No Vaccine, no work, no school, no in-person shopping.
I hope the tattoos they mark the unvaccinated with are cool... Or maybe it would be better to mark the vaccinated on their foreheads or right hand....
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:24 am to Jbird
Has there been an obvious story I’ve just missed where the fatality rate has surged or bodies are being stacked?
Aren’t we still around the 98-99% survival rate we have been at from the very beginning?
Aren’t we still around the 98-99% survival rate we have been at from the very beginning?
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:30 am to Great Plains Drifter
I thought truly asymptomatic spread was pretty much debunked. Seems like they’re following the science they agree with.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:33 am to Jbird
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Our suggestions are based on science
Need to see some scientific data on why a vaccinated person needs a mask, or how this would slow a spread.
Or why a naturally immune (had covid) person needs a mask so nurses are protected.
If those who feel the need to tell all of us unwashed citizens what we need to do, would try telling us facts, we might listen a little more to them instead of thinking they are crackpots trying to control us that they are.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:33 am to Jbird
Muh healthcare heroes
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:35 am to Jbird
USs largest nursing union wants visitor restrictions in place for another year
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:36 am to Tiguar
They got the call to distract from all the voting fraud, fact!
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