
Labor Department Issues Emergency Rules to Protect Health Care Workers from COVID
The new rules would require employers to notify workers of possible exposure to the disease and to report deaths or hospitalizations to the government
Christina Jewett is a senior correspondent with the KHN enterprise team.
The new rules would require employers to notify workers of possible exposure to the disease and to report deaths or hospitalizations to the government
Until a month ago, the agency advised that a surgical mask was sufficient unless workers were performing “aerosol-generating procedures”
Because high-end N95 masks are scarce, hospitals and other medical centers are using less protective surgical masks
Surgeon Tom Price, tapped to head Health and Human Services, has fought regulations and tried to cap malpractice suits
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