hese masks are essential for health care workers, and potentially harmful for everyone else. Don’t do this.
As the economy reels, media companies are reacting to the stunning drop in advertising with layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts. Magazine giant Conde Nast attempted to sweeten the bad news of itswith something positive: The company will be sending each of its employees an N95 mask—you know, the masks that help keep doctors and nurses treating coronavirus patients from getting ill themselves.
Why do journalists need N95s? Here’s the email from David Gifford, vice president, real estate and workplace services:Offering employees these masks is dangerous. The main, huge, obvious way it is dangerous is because there is a national shortage of N95s. These are hospital-grade masks. Health care workersto stay healthy so they can continue to go to work helping people with COVID-19 not die. They also need them so they can not die themselves. And there is a national shortage of them.
Where did the masks come from? I reached out to Conde Nast, and a spokesperson clarified why they have them, while also noting that the companyAs a tenant of 1 World Trade, we have had a supply of masks on hand for employees since moving into the building in 2014. We donated the vast majority of our stock, a medically-preferred type of mask, to local hospitals in New York City.
The spokesperson confirmed that by “medically preferred,” he meant “disposable” N95s, which is indeed what hospitals typically use. But given that health care workers are, it seems like they could still use a slightly different version of an actual N95, rather than a surgical mask or something else. There is a more subtle way this is dangerous, which has to do with how people might use the masks. Giving out a single N95 invites reuse. In fact Gifford’s email encourages reuse, “for up to two years.” Health care workers
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