Birdflu Mailing List: Pandemic Flu Facemask Guidelines

[William Weir (weirwilliam]

Here is the URL for 

Interim Public Health Guidance for the Use of Facemasks and Respirators in 
Non-Occupational Community Settings during an Influenza Pandemic - issued by US 
- CDC 5/3/07 - 10 pages

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/community/maskguidancecommunity.html<http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/community/maskguidancecommunity.html>

and a two-page summary of the above

http://www.cdc.gov/Features/MasksRespirators/<http://www.cdc.gov/Features/MasksRespirators/>

What do you think?   

Do we recommend that our congregations stock up on N-95 respirators
(the kind that many house painters wear)?

Or N-99? N-100? Or something better?  

Or a surgical mask (intended to stop the surgeon's exhaled germs from reaching 
the surgery patient, but which lets the surgeon breathe unfiltered air)?  This 
may best be used by someone who may be infected, not by someone trying to avoid 
becoming infected.

Do we prepare to show our employees and members how to make the M-95 mask fit 
snuggly
(so as not to breathe unfiltered air)?

Notice on the last of the ten pages that social distancing now means SIX FEET 
!!! Not as previously only 3 feet.
Close contact is anything less than six feet !!!  Right?

Bill
Chair of Comte on Emergency Preparedness at FUS-Mpls