thanks much, Lamb. In the US, 80% of nurses responding to a still-ongoing survey by National Nurses United say their hospitals have not communicated policy, (and who knows about other countries!) so the more advice, pointers and techniques we can get out there to help protect our nurses, the better.
Just last night I got into an extended chat with a friend who is a nurse. She has a busy life and was not following this at all, and because it is such a rare disease she didn’t really cover it in school, so she had a lot of gaps in her knowledge. Her knowledge of barrier protection and use of PPE is pretty good, but she didn’t realize modes of transmission so well (some docs I know too, unless they do research they often don’t read the primary literature so their knowledge is superficial based on high level reviews and are often incorrect). She recently stopped working in the hospital and started freelancing; I told her I was relieved because if this gets bad next year I would never stop worrying about her. We should all remember to pray for all health care providers often if this thing picks up.