hi
@northerngirl and
@occupied99
I found with dad's carers that when they put on the gloves and apron at the start of each visit, they might have looked a bit crumpled but the carers were scrupulous in using nea ones each visit and rolled them up and binned them into our kitchen bin, so any contamination was kept inside the glove/apron and it was clear the were single use
on the issue of the masks .... I was watching one of the news programmes this morning and this question came up
the expert (I think a GP) advised that masks are important in nursing those with the virus in hospital
however
the ones generally available are not effective ... they are rarely used/fitted properly so leak anyway, most will allow the virus through as it is so small, as soon as they are moist from breath they are ineffective .... a whole host of reasons (I may not have described what he said wholly accurately) and his explanation was convincing
so counter intuitive as it seems, the masks we see the average person wearing are not really helpful, except, I suppose as a kind of comforter and signal that someone knows there's a risk