Covid-positive health care workers struggle with return to work amid staff shortages

Covid-positive health care workers struggle with return to work amid staff shortages Health care workers across the country find themselves once again at the forefront of another Covid-19 surge, but this time many are being sidelined after testing positive, leading to a nationwide hospital staffing shortage YahooNews

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Health care workers across the country find themselves once again at the forefront of another Covid-19 surge, but this time many are being sidelined after testing positive, leading to a nationwide hospital staffing shortage. Hospital staff now find themselves toeing the line between patient safety and care and staffing shortages when trying to decide when it's safe to return to work after a Covid infection.

“You want to be as safe as possible and reduce the spread of the virus, but you don’t want your health care infrastructure to totally break down or suffer too much from unneeded isolation,” said Franklin Rosenblat, an infectious disease doctor in Michigan. “Lots of health care workers have tested positive for Covid, and there have been staffing shortages because of the amount of hospital staff affected.”  ....