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Masks ought to stay
at well being care websites
Re: “Sufferers’ well being risked by lifting masks mandates” (Web page A6, Might).
Kudos to Dr. Aboelata for her commentary. I can attest to the devastating influence the choice to take away masks from well being care has had on high-risk sufferers.
It’s not simply hospitalized sufferers now in danger. Each time immunocompromised sufferers want a medical go to, a lab take a look at, an X-ray or some other in-person service, we should weigh whether or not it’s value it to contract COVID. As a Kaiser affected person, I do know they haven’t supplied any lodging for high-risk sufferers to securely proceed accessing care. One-way masking is much much less efficient in mild of present extremely contagious variants. We’re uncovered to COVID not simply by unmasked suppliers, but additionally by maskless sufferers with whom we share crowded ready rooms and check-in traces. We’re reluctantly foregoing very important diagnostic and preventive care as being too harmful now.
Why are well being care establishments placing their most weak sufferers on this terrible place?
Dorothy Graham
Oakland
Republicans will preserve
gun violence going
The every day gun killings on this nation, which might now be described because the Wild West of 200 years in the past, won’t ever finish.
