Behind the Masks The Controversial Decisions That Left Healthcare Workers Exposed

The path to the Covid pandemic – and its handling by the Johnson government – was a long one, paved with decisions that may have seemed trivial at the time. But they would go on to determine the response to the biggest pandemic in a century. Some of those decisions were set in motion, in the eyes of health and safety expert David Osborn (a participant in the Covid inquiry), more than a decade before Coronavirus first hit these shores.
David Osborn, a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner with Trident HS&E Ltd, has been digging deep into those years before the pandemic. And in a new article for the Patient Safety Learning outlet, seen by Byline Times, he sets out his take on how Covid was mishandled – and what it means for us now. In 2013, two public health experts – Dr Lisa Ritchie and Nottingham University professor Jonathan Van Tam (JVT) – co-authored a paper about respiratory viruses. It discussed the threat of airborne viruses, and called for respirators (FFP3 masks) to be used in the event of an airborne virus outbreak instead of surgical ones. For viruses like SARS, the authors declared that pathogens which are “truly transmissible via the airborne route…a respirator will be required.”

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/08/17/behind-the-masks-the-controversial-decisions-that-left-healthcare-workers-exposed/

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