A battelle critical care decontamination system ccdstm site worker had a positive diagnostic test result for sars-cov-2.The worker reported symptoms of significant nausea,severe sore throat,cough,shortness of breath.The battelle ccds site worker wore personal protective equipment (ppe) level 4 fully encapsulated protective suit with positive pressure and self-contained breathing apparatus while handling contaminated n95 respirators.Therefore, the ccds site worker's infection is not being attributed to the battelle critical care decontamination system ccds.The ccds is used in the decontamination of compatible n95 respirators to prevent exposure to pathogenic biological airborne particulates.Because the battelle ccds site worker is required, pursuant to battelle's standard operating procedures, to wear ppe level 4 fully encapsuled protective suit with positive pressure and self-contained breathing apparatus while handling contaminated n95 respirators, the site worker was not wearing a n95 respirator that had been reprocessed under the fda's emergency use authorization (eua) approved march 29, 2020, and revised and reissued on june 6, 2020.
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A battelle critical care decontamination system ccds site worker had a positive diagnostic test result for sars-cov-2.The worker reported symptoms of significant nausea,severe sore throat,cough,shortness of breath.The battelle ccds site worker wore personal protective equipment (ppe) level 4 fully encapsulated protective suit with positive pressure and self-contained breathing apparatus while handling contaminated n95 respirators.Therefore, the ccds site worker's infection is not being attributed to the battelle critical care decontamination system ccds.
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