As the agency develops key guidelines on infection control for hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities, some workers feared the advice will put money above safety.
Four years after hospitals in New York City overflowed with COVID-19 patients, emergency physician Sonya Stokes remains shaken by how unprepared and misguided the American health system was.
"This is the foundational document," said Peg Seminario, an occupational health expert and a former director at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, which represents some 12 million active and retired workers. "It becomes gospel for dealing with infectious pathogens."
She's part of a growing coalition of experts from unions, the American Public Health Association, and other organizations putting together an outside statement on elements that ought to be included in the CDC's guidelines, such as the importance of air filtration and N95 masks.The CDC has not publicly announced the names of experts it added this year. It also hasn't said whether those experts will be able to vote on the committee's next draft — or merely provide advice.
One class-action suit brought by staff was against Soldiers' Home, a state-owned veterans' center in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where at least 76 veterans died from COVID and 83 employees were sickened by the coronavirus in early 2020.
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