U.S. nurses who can't get tested fear they are spreading COVID-19

NEW YORK - In New York City, an intensive care nurse treated patients for three days after she started displaying symptoms of COVID-19 - but couldn’t get a test from her hospital. In Georgia, a nurse was denied a test after treating an infected patient who died.

Many medical centers are testing only the workers with the most severe symptoms, according to the frontline workers and hospital officials. As a result, nurses and doctors risk infecting patients, colleagues and their families without knowing they are carrying the virus, medical experts say. “It’s obvious that we should be testing healthcare workers, just as points of infectivity,” Caplan said.

While some hospitals have announced plans to test more employees in recent days due to increased capacity, the inconsistency across states has created a patchwork of testing protocols based on the supplies available. While the infected workers represent just 2% of the system’s overall staff, the high percentage of positive tests in the initial round signals that further testing could reveal many more infections.

She should just stay home!

At the very least they should be quarantining at home even without a test for a week to two weeks after symptoms end

WOW, that's shameful

I call BS. I’m a nurse caring for covid patients. I got sick and I got a test that day.

Unacceptable

New York hoarded all the tests to use on tigers.

Check into it... if you are tested positive but not displaying symptoms you must report to work as a nurse or reapiratory therapist !!!!

In a country of 320 million...you found the Two hearts beating as one in a battle for their lives

Fearmongering lies by leftist Reuters

When Trump says he supports the troops, you can never take him either seriously or literally. In this war, healthcare workers are the troops. The testing program is still fvcked

These types of arrogance want to be avoided. We are front of a biological war

Meanwhile, animals in a zoo could get one.

That’s not good - we can do better for our healthcare workers

Yeah. We know. What does the hospital have to say for itself?

Desperate times...,

Chinese authorities should tell us why the whistle blowers of this Covid19 taking example Dr Wen Li Jian were censored, causing the current chaos in the world.

keep your family immune system strong.--

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gabriellaborter Sucks. Got to destroy China economically. Manufacture all Medical, Pharmaceutical, Technology in the US. Let them starve

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