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2. Health workers like she was really get hit with a heavy viral load.
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:36 AM
Apr 2020

Which is associated with worse outcomes. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/viral-load-many-health-workers-getting-sick/

It's also why masks are so important. I bet they didn't give her an N95 mask working in a nursing home.

But even homemade tshirt masks reduce the viral load you are exposed to somewhat. It's certainly better than nothing. But healthcare works should all wear N95 masks. Otherwise, we're just playing Russian roulette with their lives.

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