Current Events > California hospitals to allow Covid-positive and exposed staff to go to work

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In response to staffing shortages AND based on an analysis of their patient data. More details in the article, of course.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/COVID-San-Francisco-staff-shortage-UCSF-16758335.php

On Saturday, in response to hospitals begging for relief from a massive staffing crisis, the California Department of Public Health announced that most hospitals and skilled nursing facilities can bring COVID-positive and exposed staff back to work without testing or quarantines. The staffers must be asymptomatic, are required to wear N95 masks and are encouraged to work with patients who are already COVID-positive as much as possible.

After reviewing the charts of every COVID-positive patient at UCSF hospitals on Jan. 4, Dr. Jeanne Noble, an associate professor of emergency medicine at UCSF, determined that 70% of them were in the hospital for other reasons.

"The real COVID crisis that our hospitals are facing is a severe staffing shortage that is compromising the quality of our care," Noble said Friday, shortly before the policy change was announced.

That sounds like a terrible idea

This will end poorly.

If they feel fine and only deal with covid patients, sounds fine. I'm too lazy to read it

My gut reaction is to roll my eyes and scoff dismissively at this, but medical workers have been caught between a rock and a hard place for far too long now, and I won't look down my nose at them for resorting to desperate measures.

So they fired unvaccinated workers just ask infected workers to work a month later? I'm so glad the smart people are in charge.

They just need to start turning away unvaccinated people. Let them treat themselves at home and stop being a drain on our healthcare workers. Maybe then theyll change their tune about being anti-vaxx

You can let them work and possibly infect people or you can be horribly understaffed and cause people to die.

Cleo_II posted...

They just need to start turning away unvaccinated people. Let them treat themselves at home and stop being a drain on our healthcare workers. Maybe then theyll change their tune about being anti-vaxx

Easier said than done. Forcing medical workers to look a sick, scared incoming patient in the eye and tell them to fuck off and die would be the breaking point for way too many people. And I doubt any third party would step up to take on this grim responsibility themselves.