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Posted by Karla Armenti ·

PPE for City Workers

Our local health department is asking about the best protections for City workers through 2020 (including police, medical first responders, pressurized and open sewer workers, and undertakers). 
 
They are looking at P100s and full face masks with replaceable filters/cartridges. They want to go to the higher filtration since the infectious dose of this or future pathogens is unknown.
 
They are also looking at coverall protection.  
 
Has anyone also been working with city officials on recommendations for PPE for these workers?  Any suggestions for respirators for every day use would be appreciated.

Also, what might a “coverall” look like for these worker populations – with very different characteristics of work tasks?

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Nancy Binkin Nancy Binkin
Nancy Binkin here from San Diego.  We have a group of physicians and med students at the university who are doing reviews of various topics on request, and I asked them to put something together on what's known and recommended out there about protection for city workers (sanitation, police, mortuary, etc.).  Here's the link:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSqS49AbxAy80WIGkvOC54NZDqmTiQqsmrOdxlit-up1JZBObm6tkS62907j4YDpB-erbzj4Wrg89J6/pub

We have a number of other reviews on the site that may be useful, some clinical but some more public health:  http://covid-help.ucsd.edu/support/home
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Karla Armenti Karla Armenti
This is great, thank you Nancy!

Karla Armenti, MS, ScD
Research Assistant Professor
Principal Investigator, NH Occupational Health Surveillance Program
Institute on Disability / UCED
University of New Hampshire
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