Six Hampton Roads-area health systems are ‘strongly recommending’ that patients and visitors wear masks to protect them from skyrocketing cases of respiratory infection.
Bon Secour, Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, Sentara, The Childrens Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Riverside Health System on Thursday released a joint statement, recommending masks be work inside the buildings at all times.
According to the Virginia Department of Health, there has been more than 16,000 reported infections in the commonwealth during this flu season.
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“When you’re looking at just how it’s getting tracked that’s in the red, we don’t like the red, so once we start to see it go back down and it really is the looking at it over these two week periods,” said Caldwell Lewin, Sentara’s Manager of Infection Prevention. “And as you see two weeks of lower transmission then these facilities and hospital organizations will start to reevaluate.”