Cancer Patients + COVID

These debates about masking are mind-boggling.  I saw this article from Cancer Therapy Advisor titled "Mask Mandates Have Kept One Cancer Center Free From COVID-19. Others Have Lifted Masking Requirements Despite Patient Concerns" 

"At MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, the current masking policies are similar to City of Hope’s, but MD Anderson has plans to remove some requirements next week. Masks will no longer be required when entering the hospital or when moving around it. Masks will be required in clinical areas where there are direct patient-staff interactions and when patients are being admitted for care but not on patients when in their rooms and other inpatient areas.

"'We still worry about our patients getting COVID-19,' said Roy Chemaly, MD, chief infection control officer at MD Anderson. 'We are still seeing patients admitted with COVID-19…, so we need to keep some masking; for example, when staff are in contact with patients for a long period of time providing care, doing procedures.'"

It's like, "Oh well!" If you can't even bother to keep cancer patients safe, where are you safe?  In the morgue, perhaps?