CDC Is Discussing Ways to Strengthen PPE Standards

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is discussing restoring standards for how health workers can reuse and ration personal protective equipment, Brig. Gen. David Sanford, director of the supply chain task force, says in interview with Bloomberg Law.

• NOTE: Hospitals and health workers have used conservation practices for rationing PPE use, for example, by repeated rewearing of N95 masks
  • The practices aren’t usually allowed but CDC provided guidance earlier in the pandemic to provide solutions when enough supplies couldn’t be obtained for the typically single-use items
• Sanford says he has been in talks on a move to take standards back ...