Contributor
Dr. Dick Zoutman is Emeritus Professor in the School of Medicine at Queen’s University and a recently retired Infectious Diseases Specialist.
It’s happening again. Not a global pandemic but the minimizing of airborne precautions for an event with human-to-human transmission of a deadly respiratory virus possibly spread by airborne transmission.
We must learn the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent thousands from acquiring a preventable workplace-acquired illness.