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One of the reasons I posted the picture of the PAPR and Hood was to show the simplicity of the outfit. Donning and removal are much safer than the ludicrous piecemeal stitching together of numerous and ineffective level 2 PPE items recommended by the CDC.

I have used PPE for vessel entry in the past. It is a pain to both robe and disrobe. I can only imagine how difficult it must be while covered in BSL-4 pathogens.

While the CDC hangs onto to it's ill conceived PPE guidelines, many more people are going to become infected. What are the medical costs for just one infected HCW? I would most assuredly bet that 100 PAPRs and Hoods would be a fraction of the cost.

3,263 posted on 10/07/2014 2:28:50 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)

You are correct, but it will take a nurses union strike under pressure of an Ebola outbreak to make the CDC change it’s pointy haired bureaucratic mind.

3,264 posted on 10/07/2014 2:33:35 PM PDT by Dark Wing

PAPR and hood can be had for under 2K.

3,285 posted on 10/07/2014 6:27:24 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)

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