Dr. Goodman is a professor medicine and infectious diseases at Georgetown University and is a former chief scientist of the US Food and Drug Administration.
Dr. Lurie served as assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the US Department of Health and Human Services from 2009 to 2017 and is now the strategic advisor to the CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Initiatives (CEPI)._____________________________________Doctors, nurses, first responders, and housekeeping staff are caring for COVID- 19 patients without assurance they can safely do their jobs.
Many are jury-rigging homemade masks and respirators or using unproven, possibly unsafe methods to wash and reuse them (prompting a recent European Safety Federation