Federal records show OSHA worked for six years to create new rules to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic. The Obama White House formally added it to a list of regulations to be implemented in 2017. Then President Trump took office.
Health care workers hold a placard that says From Heroes to Zeroes during a protest against hospital under-staffing and insufficient personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses treating COVID-19 patients amid the coronavirus pandemic. The protest took place outside Saint Joseph Medical Center hospital in Burbank, Calif. on May 19.Barcroft Media/Barcroft Media via Getty Images
"H1N1 made it very clear OSHA did not have adequate standards for airborne transmission and contact transmission and so we began writing a standard to do that," Michaels said.OSHA experts were confident new airborne infectious disease regulations would make hospitals and nursing homes safer when future pandemics hit. That's because similar rules had already been created for blood-borne pathogens like Ebola and Hepatitis.
Instead, the decision appeared to be part of a wider effort to cut regulations and bureaucratic oversight. A medical worker is assisted into PPE while standing inside an area marked in blue tape, a"warm" area, before stepping into a patient's room in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center Friday, May 8, 2020, in Seattle.
"Which obviously would mandate that employers have the highest level of PPE, not the lowest," she said.
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