Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed mask requirements for nursing homes on September 23, many long-term care facilities will not be able to take advantage of them. Due to the stricter mask mandates of their respective states, they must comply.
Some health experts believe it is too soon to let down our guard where the most vulnerable populations live.
The CDC’s change was “terrible policy” and “a life-threatening change for people at risk,” said Jeremy S. Faust, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in an essay published online. the last weekend.
The revised guidelines make mask requirements optional for health care facilities in areas where community transmission is not labeled “high.” As of Saturday, that applied to just over 39% of all US counties. But the number of counties with high transmission had dropped 12.29% over the previous seven-day period, according to the CDC.
“We are in a strange place in the US,” Michael L. Barnett, a health services researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health told the Globe. “There is a lot of streaming going on. [But] there is a sense at the highest levels of politics that we are tired of trying too hard.
“For me it makes even less sense to be permissive with nursing homes, which is the most vulnerable place in the pandemic. You could make a better case for relaxing anywhere other than nursing homes.”
LeadingAge, which represents nonprofit nursing homes across the US, released a statement for McKnight’s Long-Term Care News on Friday.
“CDC’s updated recommendations, which while not yet aligned with recommendations for the general public, provide greater flexibility for people living and working in healthcare settings than previous guidance, and also reflect our advocacy on behalf of the members and the self-governing individuals they serve.”
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