A nurse that works for a hospital, Mosaic Life Care in Saint Joseph, Missouri, was supposed to work the night shift of December 29, 2020. Yep, right dab in the middle of The Great Coronavirus Epidemic of 2020.
But on December 28, she developed a fever, headache, loss of taste and smell, cough and shortness of breath. Yep, right dab in the middle of The Great Coronavirus Epidemic of 2020 and a few days after working med-surg at that very same hospital.
So, trying to get direction on how to document her illness and arrange for sick-days off, she is told that the hospital would not screen her for COVID-19. She had to use her COBRA insurance (she has been working for the hospital for 6 weeks) and arrange testing on her own.
That same Hospital quarantined a cafeteria worker because she had symptoms of COVID-19. She was told that she had to get tested. Test results would not be available for 4 days and she would have to quarantine until the test was negative. When the test came back negative, the “human resources department” personnel told her that the quarantine time off was to be taken out of her personal time off bank instead of sick time off. Because the test was negative.
This is the kind of attention to public health I’d expect from Bill de Blasio or Crazy Cumo of New York.
Yep, right dab in the middle of The Great Coronavirus Epidemic of 2020.
From your grumpy Uncle Dave.