Some California nursing homes are using pillowcase masks and trash-bag gowns

Cleaning supplies are also dwindling


In some nursing homes in California, the masks are gone, replaced by face covers fashioned from pillowcases, according to an article on the Los Angeles Times website.

Cleaning supplies are also running low and some nurses  are using off-the-rack raincoats and trash bags instead of sterile gowns.

At least 1,266 residents and staff members at the state’s more than 1,200 skilled nursing facilities have confirmed cases of  COVID-19.

Long-term care facilities have accounted for at least 221 deaths in Washington, or about half of the deaths in the state. In New York, more than half of nursing homes have positive cases, and more than 1,700 people in such facilities, about a third of nursing home residents with COVID-19, have died, the article said.

Read the article.



April 23, 2020


Topic Area: Infection Control


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