1ºYou’d be thrown out of my ER and sent back to Infection Control for retraining. Not to mention the exposure risk to other outpatients.
From the CDC:
Patient Placement
A patient with suspected or confirmed monkeypox infection should be placed in a single-person room; special air handling is not required. The door should be kept closed (if safe to do so). The patient should have a dedicated bathroom. Transport and movement of the patient outside of the room should be limited to medically essential purposes. If the patient is transported outside of their room, they should use well-fitting source control (e.g., medical mask) and have any exposed skin lesions covered with a sheet or gown.
Intubation and extubation, and any procedures likely to spread oral secretions should be performed in an airborne infection isolation room.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
PPE used by healthcare personnel who enter the patient’s room should include:
Gown
Gloves
Eye protection (i.e., goggles or a face shield that covers the front and sides of the face)
NIOSH-approved particulate respirator equipped with N95 filters or higher
2ºBet there are monkeypox variants already. Some of these people recognized this, and don’t want to handle the specimens. Then of course you are bad people for not accepting the risks. Kind of plays into the COVID-19 narrative and measures that none of the people who are at risk for monkeypox will not observe. This in turn begs why people are not telling people at risk to halt their activities. Maybe the monkeypox variant is the new AIDS. When it starts killing innocent people one can ask why the science of medicine has exceptions. Has hate and hysteria builds one can ask why can’t you halt your lives for everyone else’s safety. Then you will hear bigotry and hate be evoked. That reckless behavior that endanger others is a human right.
3ºAndi Louise Wow. You’re the expert. Other than the fact that you’re completely and utterly wrong.
Full contact and airborne precautions in a negative pressure room and treated by healthcare providers with evidence of immunity.
Full contact with airborne is more than a simple face mask and gloves, and a lot more than what most outpatient labs can happily handle.
Gonna copy/paste from CDC here.
Management of Patients with Varicella
Healthcare providers should follow standard precautions plus airborne precautions (negative air-flow rooms) and contact precautions until lesions are dry and crusted. If negative air-flow rooms are not available, patients with varicella should be isolated in closed rooms with no contact with people without evidence of immunity. Patients with varicella should be cared for by staff with evidence of immunity.
https://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/hcp/index.html