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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) recently announced dangerous guidance allowing asymptomatic health care workers who test positive for COVID-19 or who have been exposed to the virus and are asymptomatic to return to work immediately without isolation or testing.
The pandemic is not over. We are in the midst of a record-breaking surge of Covid-19 driven by the Omicron variant. California is running out of hospital beds, and nurses and other health care workers are already reporting extreme levels of moral distress and injury. It is unconscionable that CDPH allow infected asymptomatic workers back to work. I guess they want to accelerate the pandemic into the endemic status.
Any healthcare worker who tests positive for COVID-19 must isolate for at least 5 days, whether symptomatic or not, or until their tests are negative. Eliminating the isolation time and sending, infected health care workers to work will guarantee the transmission of more infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. We have already had 111 deaths here in Mendocino County since the pandemic began.
Hospitals and clinics must provide daily screening for those exposed and recovering from COVID and provide protections like optimal PPE and notification to other health care workers of known exposures.
CDPH must rescind this new guidance in order to protect patients, and keep nursing colleagues healthy and safe on the front lines.
Robin Sunbeam, RN, MSN, PHN
Add to that, many workers are finding themselves infected but cant afford to get fired since they have already used up their pto, what are they supposed to do?? They are being hung out for the buzzards. Shame shame.
Instead of complaining about the lying “experts” yet again manipulating their “science” in a manner more fit for astrology, we need to accept that SARS-CoV-2 is NOT going away. We need to support the vulnerable, while recognizing that for the vast majority of people, a diagnosis of COVID-19 is not worse than a bad cold. No more idiot mandates for “masking,” no more fraudulent “testing,” and no more deadly, ineffective gene therapy “vaccines.”
“Two weeks to flatten the curve” has become two YEARS to flatten the curve (along with flattening the economy and flattening the EEGs and EKGs of many who have committed suicide or died from despair as a direct result of COVID-19(84) tyranny). Will we keep playing along until it’s two DECADES to flatten the curve?
I feel very sorry for the people who have been victimized by the government- and corporate-sponsored terrorism inflicted on them. This includes the health care professionals who have to live in the Orwellian/Kafkaesque world created for us by our “Great Reset” rulers. But there comes a point where people of reasonable intelligence or better need to recognize they’ve been played in a satanic manner, and decide ENOUGH!, no more.
Could t have said it better.
It is ridiculous….. I have been on a medication (humeria) a Lil over a year now. It’s suppose to slow the progression of my disease,so I may live longer with less pain and more mobility? My insurance pays $7,166.52 every month. That’s 2 injections a month…ok there are a few setbacks to this medication.. it does suppress .y immune system… so next .. I get the covid vacating 1 shot ..2 shot… to help my immune system a bit so I Don’t get covid?…. well guess what? I was tested positive today!…I amrunning all this over and over throught my pretty educated brain here… and what I have come up with…is?
I need better phsyc medicine. Because I am about to see if I possibly fly. I needs some clarity here. ! Not feeling like the 7000 dollar woman at all.