It's also near impossible to do any kind of social distancing with your colleges when not being face-to-face with patients, the several different levels of PPE are only worn when providing patient care so all of the other times, coffee room, lunchtime or going between departments means you can't help but to come into close contact with other staff in the hospital environment.
It will be interesting to see if the instructions on PPE have changed over the weekend since the recent frenzied talk over PPE reuse (updates had calmed down for a while so we knew where we were), thing is what does come across on the news is that we have 'single use' and 'single patient use' which are different plus I would say that nearly 100% of all surgical gowns are made of water-resistant paper so not sure how it's possible to clean and resterilised them (I think this is done with Ethylene Oxide gas).
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