Preparedness
Connecticut hospitals evaluate readiness
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 1st, 2002
The decision comes as a federal committee urges that hundreds of thousands of emergency room heath care workers nationwide be vaccinated against smallpox.
The directive includes doctors, nurses, radiologists and support staff, such as security and housekeepers and those who work in settings with negative air pressure rooms.
Most hospitals in Connecticut have some of these negative air-pressure rooms to deal with such infectious diseases as tuberculosis.
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