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Doctors recommend upgrading masks as Omicron spreads

As Bellin Hospital in Green Bay gets some much-needed help, one of its local doctors says you can help by getting vaccinated and getting better masks. It echoes sentiments made by doctors in Ohio earlier this week urging people to retire their cloth masks and use hospital-grade ones.  Dr. Robert Mead from Bellin Health says cloth masks were important at the beginning of the pandemic because of hospitals' shortage of personal protective equipment. Thanks to the increased production of masks like the N95 and KN95, Mead believes the time is right to upgrade in the face of the much more infectious Omicron variant.

Bellin Hospital is operating at 100 percent capacity due to the influx of patients. It is forced to turn away dozens of ambulances from rural hospitals because they cannot accept new patients. Trained members of the Navy and Army have been deployed to Bellin to help with the increased patient load for the next month.

 

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