WHO urged to make respirator masks the standard for workers in “all healthcare settings”

Doctors, scientists, and public health experts have urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to recommend that healthcare workers wear respirators “in every encounter in all healthcare settings.” The letter—seen by The BMJ —calls for WHO to update its infection prevention and control guidance to recommend that staff wear respirators such as N95, FFP2/3, and elastomeric masks as standard practice and “not just during outbreaks or high risk procedures.” It argues that not doing so is “scientifically indefensible” and “dangerous,” as it would continue to expose staff and patients to “preventable and potentially even lethal risk” from pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2. Around 50 experts—including Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford—have endorsed the letter. Although they think that wearing respirators should be the default, the authors add that WHO could recommend that governments …

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