 Photo Illustration by Tommy Penick
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by NASH DUNN
News Reporter
They fixed beads, glued jewels and wore surgical masks.
The ooze that dripped from the hot glue guns struck a similar appearance to the mass of hand sanitizer on full display.
Flashing around in highly decorative “clown masks,” a handful of White Residence Hall residents and assistants adorned an array of preventative masks as part of a hall-wide program “Sassy, Chic Swine Flu” held in October.
The program was
designed to educate students on H1N1 preventative measures in addition
to decorating preventative surgical masks for possible future use,
sophomore journalism major and White Hall resident assistant Brittany
N. Noll said.
But White Hall resident assistants are not the only ones encouraging mask usage.
Mary S.
Shook Student Health Services continues to see 70-80 students a week
with H1N1 flu symptoms. They are highly recommending mask use, and are
informing students on a daily basis of proper usage.
“The
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] recommends that during the
H1N1 flu epidemic that people wear face masks to prevent the spread of
the illness,” Student Health Services Nurse Supervisor Beverly
Cuthbertson said. “We put signs out to inform students that if they
have a cough or a fever to put on a mask.”
The CDC also recommends those infected with H1N1 isolate themselves for at least 24 hours.
Cuthbertson
said there has not been “one complaint from students” about the masks,
but is worried about masks being worn ineffectively.
When
students with possible infections enter Student Health Services, they
are given a mask and are highly recommended to use it.
“[Health
care workers] are at high risk for getting [the H1N1 flu], and masks
are helping protect us, but they’re also helping protect the student
that’s sitting beside of them who’s coming to see the doctor with no
kind of infection whatsoever,” Cuthbertson said.
As for Noll’s “flu-bedazzled” floor in White Hall, she reports that not one resident has contracted the H1N1 flu yet.
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