Donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE) made sense in early 2020 ... Current guidelines from the CDC and WHO require health care workers who provide direct care to patients ...

In addition, the CDC now is recommending that clinicians rigorously train and demonstrate competency at both donning and doffing PPE. The latter step, if done improperly, puts a clinician at risk ...

The CDC advises that workers can unknowingly ... during their shift are not able to breach the barrier that the PPE provides. Donning and doffing is one of the main steps where contamination ...