Your hoarding masks could cost me my life — a doctor's view from the coronavirus front lines (via latimesopinion)
As a doctor working in a Los Angeles public hospital, I don’t have the choice of telecommuting or working from home. My colleagues and I have a moral commitment to care for the sick and try to save lives. This is a profession we happily chose, knowing the risks involved, but we used to feel adequately protected. Today, with a raging global pandemic, we don’t.have been infected by COVID-19. Every time another one of them falls ill, that’s one fewer person to treat sick patients.
When I read about people hoarding N95 and surgical masks, I’m outraged. Public hoarding of supplies needed by clinics and hospitals is not the way for people to protect themselves; in fact it’s counterproductive. Social distancing isn’t simply a phrase; it’s what every responsible person should be doing to slow down this virus and give the health system a fighting chance at success. Instead of donning masks to go do battle for that last case of water at the supermarket, stay home; it’s safer.
The federal government’s failure to rapidly ramp up testing is another thing that has put us all in danger. We don’t have enough kits to test all those showing potential signs of the virus, and we wouldn’t have the lab capacity to process the tests if we did. It’s impossible to adequately prepare for the epidemic when we have no idea how many people are infected.
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