California health care workers won't have to isolate or test negative to go back to work if they are asymptomatic with COVID until next month, the state's department of health announced.
"If we have a nurse that calls out what that means for us is that we can't open a zone in the emergency department that we would've been able to open," said Dr. Maria Raven, chief of Emergency Medicine at UCSF Parnassus Campus, adding,"We feel like if people don't have symptoms they should be able to come to work."
Dr. Maria Raven believes this change will play a crucial role in alleviating the statewide health care staffing shortage. California's Department of Public Health is requiring hospitals to opt for this option after exhausting every other option and requiring asymptomatic health care workers to wear N95 masks at all times.
"We are all starting to brace once again for another surge. It's so exhausting and we're morality distressed," said Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, President California Nurses Association.
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