Damn poor choice of words IMO. What is that conclusion based on?
In my experience, the majority of accidents, including accidental infection, are due to operator error. Whether or not they were aware of pertinent safety procedures is irrelevant to that fact. If someone works with something like hydrogen fluoride in the lab and breathes in a fatal dose, it was their action in working with the acid that led to their death, regardless of whether they ignored or did not know the established precautions.
Apparently, the CDC decided their early guidance was not sufficient, because they changed it.
Apparently, the new CDC guidance has been dumbed down. The PPE recommendations are basically the same, but there is more "spelling out" of what precautions need to be used under which circumstances. There is danger in dumbing down precautions...
To state that “two nurses infect themselves” is a poor choice of words, and your response clearly shows that it is just based on assumptions-not direct knowledge of these people or investigation of the situation.
Very poor on your part to use those words in that fashion. I would expect better from someone who claims that everything they say can be proven in fact.