Bans on COVID-19 Mask Requirements vs Disability Accommodations

Raz, Mical; Dorfman, Doron

doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1912

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“…However, there is a group of people who are facing difficulties when wearing a face mask and require exemptions from wearing face masks. The group consists of children younger than 2 years old [ 33 ], people with disabilities such as hearing [ 34 ], breathing [ 35 ], and people with disabilities as defined by the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) [ 36 ]. Children younger than 2 years old are not recommended to wear any type of mask as they are still having very small airways that can make them struggle to breathe.…”

Section: Face Mask Design and Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prerequisite for COVID-19 Prediction: A Review on Factors Affecting the Infection Rate

Tang

Hadi

Arsad

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Since the year 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as the dominant topic of discussion in the public and research domains. Intensive research has been carried out on several aspects of COVID-19, including vaccines, its transmission mechanism, detection of COVID-19 infection, and its infection rate and factors. The awareness of the public related to the COVID-19 infection factors enables the public to adhere to the standard operating procedures, while a full elucidation on the correlation of different factors to the infection rate facilitates effective measures to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection by policy makers and enforcers. Hence, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive and analytical review of different factors affecting the COVID-19 infection rate. Furthermore, this review analyses factors which directly and indirectly affect the COVID-19 infection risk, such as physical distance, ventilation, face masks, meteorological factor, socioeconomic factor, vaccination, host factor, SARS-CoV-2 variants, and the availability of COVID-19 testing. Critical analysis was performed for the different factors by providing quantitative and qualitative studies. Lastly, the challenges of correlating each infection risk factor to the predicted risk of COVID-19 infection are discussed, and recommendations for further research works and interventions are outlined.

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Section: Face Mask Design and Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prerequisite for COVID-19 Prediction: A Review on Factors Affecting the Infection Rate

Tang

Hadi

Arsad

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…A concrete example is the establishment of criteria for access to Evusheld, a combination of two monoclonal antibodies that prevents the appearance of COVID-19. Another similar situation would be to require unvaccinated persons to wear a mask in those spaces shared with persons with the organic disability under analysis (Raz and Dorfman 2021).…”

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COVID-19, the Immune System, and Organic Disability

Avilés

Beriain

2022

ABR

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Despite the availability of safe vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, some people will remain vulnerable because they will not be vaccinated. Who are these non-vaccinated people? We can distinguish two groups: (i) persons who cannot be vaccinated for clinical reasons and who, despite having been vaccinated, have not achieved immunity; (ii) persons who voluntarily refuse to get vaccinated. These groups have in common an immune system that will make them vulnerable to COVID-19. The reasons for their vulnerability and the ethical judgment they deserve are different; the solutions offered to them are also different. In the case of those who voluntarily avoid vaccination, States are not compromised to introduce new protective policies. In the case of people who remain involuntarily vulnerable, instead, the response should be articulated on the same rules and principles that inform the social model of disability because they will live with an organic disability.

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“…5 Public health interventions enabled people to live their lives more fully in the face of a dangerous disease. 6 Living life more fully surely increased risk exposure, but people saw that trade-off as worth it. Analyses that miss that miss the point.…”

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