Yesterday as I came in to work, I saw a big banner on H1N1 screening being publicly displayed.... and today a nurse, complete with a mask was seen sitting behind a desk, next to the foyer.. waiting to screen patients for H1N1... I could not suppress my smile. If you look at the demography of the people who attend this health facility.. you'd think that this is an over-reaction, or is it a clever strategy to show the citizens that the government is doing something?
Another drastic local action, be it far away, was the quarantine of dozens of symptom-free Mexicans in an hotel in China, triggering a diplomatic row... after SARS who would blame the enigmatic Chinese who, by the way, hid from the world the deadly disease which caught people unprepared and many,as a result, died! At least the Mexicans are transparent. Geographically,a lot more of our countrymen travel to China than to North America! We were justified to be frenzied then.
Regardless of whether an epidemic or a pandemic,for personal safety and as a universal precaution,I would don a mask whenever a patient comes in with coughs especially when dear old TB is making a come back due to multi-drug resistance and high prevalence of HIV.
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