More hospitalized patients getting COVID-19, maybe from infected staff
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Often, that means having to choose between treating sick patients and allowing infected employees to return to work (though hospitals can decide for themselves what constitutes a critical shortage, NPR reported).But disease experts fear the CDC policy is fueling in-hospital transmission, since research shows that some people with COVID-19 can still be infectious for up to 10 days. But there are few explanations for the rapid spike of inpatients who contracted COVID-19, Caballero said."The thing that changed was the CDC's policy that shortened that isolation period," he said, adding: "If a hospital has good infection control measures, then we shouldn't see a huge rise in infections within the hospital setting."Insider recently spoke with four nurses — two in Kentucky, one in Florida, and another in mid-Atlantic region — who were instructed to come into work with symptomatic COVID-19.
As said here by Aria Bendix