Tue Jan 11, 2022 – 2:54 pm EST
RICHMOND (LifeSiteNews) — As hospitals continue to weather staffing shortages brought on by mandates that employees receive COVID-19 vaccines, some hospital systems across the country are compensating by allowing some workers who have COVID itself to return to duty.
Over the weekend, the California Department of Public Health announced “temporary flexibility to help hospitals and emergency services providers respond to an unprecedented surge and staffing shortages” by allowing asymptomatic employees to come back to work. The department cautioned it should only be done after hospitals “exhaust all other options,” and even then, afflicted workers should “interact only with COVID-19 positive patients to the extent possible.”
University of California San Francisco epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford told NBC Bay Area that resorting to infected workers is not unprecedented, but California Nurses Association president Sandy Reding said she remains “very concerned. If you have health care workers who are COVID positive care for vulnerable populations, we can spread the COVID virus inside the hospital as well.”
“Allowing employers to bring back workers who may still be infectious is one of the worst ideas I have heard during this pandemic, and that’s
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