When the wearing of face masks by non-scrubbed staff working in an operating room with forced ventilation seems to be unnecessary.
Study article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1680906/
This idea is being taken into consideration at the same time as America is dealing with record-high numbers of illegal immigrants pouring in through the southern border, many of them bringing in Covid.
The AP wrote, “Still, while more severe [Covid] measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19 — have been discussed, the administration worried that they would be too polarizing for the moment.”
Saying the administration is worried the policy would be too polarizing
“for the moment” shows they may change their mind in the near future." NW