Unions slam Quebec for allowing COVID-positive health care staff to work

Healthcare unions are opposing Quebec’s decision to allow some asymptomatic workers infected with COVID-19 to stay on the job, even as an infectious disease specialist warned more Canadian provinces may be forced into similar steps as Omicron surges.allow some essential healthcare staff to continue working

A number of unions said they are worried the decision will put healthcare networks under further strain, and workers and patients at risk. Andrew Morris, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Toronto, said on Wednesday other provinces were likely discussing similar measures to help tackle staffing shortages in hospitals.

Morris said he was not aware of other jurisdictions allowing infected healthcare staff to work, but noted that Norway had already shortened its isolation period during a wave of the Delta variant earlier this winter.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Forcing them to work I believe.

I wish i unions would strike and bring the CAQ to their knees

Wearing masks 0% effectiveness, physical distancing 0% effectiveness, testing is unreliable The only logical explanation vaccines are the blame the cause spikes in severe illness, and pointing to data that provided misinformation in their safety, effectiveness.

As they should. This policy is because of bad labour relations and abysmal pandemic management (in ON too).

❤️ Covid kills... Except when marching in the 1000s for BLM. Except when it causes a crisis in essential workforce sectors. Except when the SCIENCE is INCONVENIENT. 🤨 RIPtrust andonitgoes 😔

Legault had ample time to organize more healthcare staff this summer when the numbers dropped since we would see a spike in Fall and Winter. Totally incompetent.

'Stupid is as stupid does'. FG

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