well guys out there and bearded ladies do you need to shave your beard because the covid19
and by the time you're watching this video i'll be back in the hospital and do I need
to shave my beard not I'm going back to work there's the CDC guidelines that came out in
2017 about n95 respirator masks and having a good seal around the nose and around the
mouth and therefore you can't have a beard what's that all about well check this out
all right first things first do you need to shave a beard the answer is no unless you're wearing
an i-95 respirator mask as if you're a healthcare worker the reason why the answer is no is because
there aren't any studies to indicate whether having a clean-shaven face makes you either
more or less prone to getting covid 19 and or spreading covid 19 so there's no evidence either
way in anyone who claims to know that answer doesn't know what they're talking about when
it comes to that now when I was seeing covid 19 patients in the hospital who are suspected
of having it what I would do is I would wear a popper a powered air purifying respirator and
this is essentially like those spacesuits that you see where there's a clear shield in front and then
they have it's like a helmet looking thing and then there's the hose that attaches in the back
and that purifies the air now that serves the purpose of things that are airborne transmitted
so right now with covid 19 it looks like there is some transmission that occurs through airborne
and the way that occurs well there's a study that showed that the virus lingers in the air
for up to three hours so the way that's going to be transmitted is when someone's in usually
inside such as an elevator and someone coughs or sneezes and then that becomes aerosol eyes
and then the virus starts to slow slowly fall down that's actually the least common way that
the virus is transmitted the most common way is through contact and also through respiratory
droplets now respiratory droplets that can occur when anyone is simply just breathing
or just talking but also occurs when someone's coughing and sneezing and the way that works is
whenever we're talking or coughing or sneezing that droplet comes out of the mouth and it's
about six feet it goes about six feet before it hits the ground and if the wind is blowing that
can carry that droplet anywhere I remember when I was talking to someone someone knew that I met at
work and very friendly and we're just talking and you know what there's we're maintaining distances
like five six feet something like that I didn't actually measure it but anyway I just remember
you know she's talking to me and I'm looking at her and remember seeing this droplet coming not
straight towards my face but it just dodged me like one like that and I just all I could
think about was kovat in the air just like that so anyway respiratory droplets is the main way
that in contact is the main way of transmission that's why surgical masks not the n95 masks they
prevent the spread of the disease because when someone has the virus in them and they go to
talk or cough or sneeze that mask prevents that droplet with the virus from being put in the
air and getting onto surfaces getting on to other people and so forth do people need to shave their
beard to reduce their chance of getting infected to reduce their chance of spreading infection no
the beard can stay as long as you're not a health care worker needing an n95 so with me going back
to the hospital tomorrow I have to shave this bad boy right here and not really looking forward to
it but it's what I got to do and based on the CDC's recommendation in order for me to get a
tight fit with the n95 so that's a thing too is with these n95 masks normally I just wear
a pepper but because Stoppers are in limited supply and you got to clean them every time
and disinfect them you know it's not practical for all the health care workers to be able to use the
poppers that's why we have to switch to a 95 s to reduce the airborne transmission of the virus and
not only that so the PPE that's in short supply so we have to make the most out of these n95 masks
therefore we get one per day and we'll switch it out every day and to be disinfected so that's the
process that's why I have to shave my beard and that's why I have to do it right now today so I
guess what I can do is take a look at the CDC guidelines they have recommendations on beers
and what's acceptable and what's not acceptable so let's take a look so this is the website here
this is what it looks like let's look at what is approved for that 95 and what is not approved
all right so what's not approved you can't have any stubble no stubble no short stubble no long
stubble no full-beard no French fork whatever whatever that is no ducktail no Verdi it's like
looks like Italian sounds Italian Garibaldi no Garibaldi no vandals Pinkertons and no go the
extended goatee like Robert Downey jr. and Ironman hell yeah it's the circle beard that's a no-go
he says anchor and bulb oh whatever that is it says careful chin hair may easily cross
the seal line the Van Dyck now that's pretty cool but that's a no-go same with Imperial
the mutton chops in the who Lee he I you know if I had to choose one I probably go with the
Huli he look at those chops the horseshoe I don't know if I could do that one the Zappala
that's pretty cool the walrus I'm just sayin thick enough for the walrus plus I feel like
you gotta have a body shaped like a walrus in order to pull that off the painters brush okay
that's approved Chevron and then handlebar it's kind of cool you can do that that's an option
the pencil ooh there's two variations of the pencil one's a little curved and one's little
the toothbrush I think that's more like the Hitler the lampshade Zorro hey come on Zorro
the villain careful not to cross the seal that's the Rowley fingers for you right there the Fuu
Manchu I wish I could have a food Manchu do you know how awesome that would look going like this
the English that's pretty crazy all the way out to here that stache and the Dali yep so
some of these are approved some of these are not let's see let's try some of these out shall we
good morning sunshine but they should rename
this the Lemmy from Motorhead the age to space the AC space
now you have to realize there are a lot of people out there unfortunately that exists in our society
that are pedophiles but they don't just walk around with pedophile stamped on their forehead
but if they have a stash like this that's probably the closest thing the toothbrush
let's go it's all cool
alright so how we're doing it for pulmonary and critical care is we get one n95 mask per
day we use it the whole day this is my a mask at the end of the day I'll put my a mask and a
bag and it gets sent off to the UV machine for disinfecting and then tomorrow I'll wear the B
mask wear that all day and then at the end of tomorrow I'll have that one sent off for
cleaning and yeah that's actually the reason why I had to shave my beard so that I could
wear these n95 masks because the peppers are limited so the way that we're doing it now
forced me to shave my beard which I didn't even recognize myself in the morning but
oh well and then when we go to see Covid 19 patients in the hospital or those suspected
of having Covid 19 i wear a gown of course and I put these stylish AF goggles over my classes
and I double glove as well when I'm done seeing and there's a stethoscope already in the room
so I'm not using this stethoscope here but after you know I'm done seeing the patient
I clean these clock i disinfect these goggles and I take off the surgical mask that I wear
on top of this 1095 mask and D glove and that's how the process works so that's where we're at