Nation’s largest nurses union calls on Biden administration to tighten COVID-19 restrictions

Nation’s largest nurses union calls on Biden administration to tighten COVID-19 restrictions The country’s largest union of registered nurses called on the Biden administration to take action against rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations amid the surge of immune-evasive Omicron subvar… jmueller The Hill

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A CDC metric that suggests indoor masking only when risk levels in a community reach a “high” point skips critical preventative windows, when risks are lower, the nurses said.  

“Waiting until hospitalizations are increasing before recommending universal masking indoors in public means that the opportunity to prevent those hospitalizations was missed.”...