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Re:Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? by jjeaff on Sunday March 22, 2020 @06:11PM (#22659211)
Oh, so that's why every hospital room has an air sealed clean zone that medical professionals have to enter to put on ppe?

For those that don't know, this is sarcasm. Most ICUs don't have any sort of sealed off clean zone.

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Re:Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier? by LyndsySimon on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:55PM (#22671035)
> Most ICUs don't have any sort of sealed off clean zone.

Right - most ICUs aren’t set up to handle infectious diseases.

Here’s the CDC recommendation on doffing procedure. Note the repeated mention of the “doffing area”: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/ppe-training/n95Respirator...

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