Rhode Island says COVID-positive staff can return to work at hospitals and nursing homes to solve 'staffing crisis

[Momto2boys973]

I agree. It seems like they had to choose between bad and worst.

I think it makes more sense that if they have tested positive but are asymptomatic or even recovering with mild symptoms, have them wear an N-95 and carry on. We can't continue to quarantine perfectly healthy people just because they've been exposed or test positive. We have to keep moving forward with life.

how is someone who is testing positive for a contagious virus deemed ''healthy'' enough to go to work and expose others?

They’re not. But hospitals are desperate. And when you’re desperate, when people are overwhelmed, you do what you got to. The answer is get vaccinated and be cautious. But not everyone wears masks or vaccinates. So this is the result. The health care workers suffer.

[Pjmm]

Oh, no! If anyone has a contagious disease, and especially if it's COVID they do NOT need to go into work or school! It can still be spread that way! So no, that does NOT make any sense. People who are sick with ANYTHING should stay home and not go into work to spread it around. People in Rhode Island have lost their minds to think that.

Except when the hospitals are already overwhelmed where are they supposed to get nurses and doctors to substitute for the sick ones? It’s not like substitute teaching where anyone with some education and training can do it. Idk why anyone is shocked it has come to this.