This is interesting. American Academy for Anesthesiologists recommends:
Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Information for Health Care Professionals
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Place patients in an Airborne Infection Isolation Room2
Health care professionals entering the room should use airborne and contact precautions, including eye protection.
Personal protective equipment3 (PPE) to be worn includes:
Either an N95 mask, for which one has been fit-tested, or a powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR)4.;
A face shield or goggles;
A gown;
Gloves.
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An Airborne Infection Isolation Room (AIIR) has a negative-pressure relative to the surrounding area. A minimum of 6 air changes per hour (12 air changes per hour are recommended for new construction or renovation). Air from these rooms should be exhausted directly to the outside or be filtered through a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter before recirculation. Room doors should be kept closed except when entering or leaving the room, and entry and exit should be minimized. Facilities should monitor and document the proper negative-pressure function of these rooms. If an AIIR is not available, patients who require hospitalization should be transferred as soon as is feasible to a facility where an AIIR is available.“
This is what I’m hoping all of the first responders are wearing....(like firemen who were NOT, in WA).
TEXAS
Rice University asks “small group” to self-quarantine due to employee’s possible exposure to coronavirus
The Houston university said it’s making the move out of an abundance of caution.
BY MATTHEW WATKINS MARCH 1, 202011:39 AM
Saying the move was out of an abundance of caution, Rice University on Saturday asked a “small group of students and faculty” to self-quarantine because a university employee might have been exposed to the new coronavirus while traveling overseas.
The university didn’t disclose who the employee is, where in the university the person works or where the employee traveled — other than to say it was not to a country on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s restricted travel list. The university community was notified of the quarantine in a campus-wide alert late Saturday night.