Apr 9, 2020
The circumstances that led to the national shortage in PPE for healthcare workers, the inspiring work of New Orleans med students to equip medical providers with PPE and the science behind personal use of cloth masks are all topics covered in this special edition of the Emergency Medical Minute.
Host: Elizabeth Esty, MD
Research By: Julia Luyten
Sound Editing By: Stephen Bahmani
Time Stamps:
0:00 - The scope of the mask shortage
1:04 - What led to the shortage
5:01 - Interview with Taylor Hopper, med student from Tulane University School of Medicine (TUSOM), who's part of TUSOM COVID Response Group - an organization frantically working to adequately supply hospitals with PPE in New Orleans.
16:23 - The science behind personal use of cloth masks
References and Further Reading:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190272/?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673620305201?via%3Dihub
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118603/
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/3/20/21188369/face-masks-short-supply-coronavirus-donations
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/opinion/coronavirus-doctors-hoarding.html
https://columbiasurgery.org/donate-ppe
https://www.nytimes.com/article/face-masks-coronavirus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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