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Originally Posted by biggerboat
In more personal news.....
My wife was just informed that a patient she worked with yesterday for about 30 minutes was sent to the hospital with covid.
The long story.
The man is an obese resident with mild dementia. My wife and several other workers were in his room because he had fallen and they were trying to get him up.
Sometime in the process he complained of not feeling well and described his symptoms. They called ems to check him out. Ems came in, quickly assessed things and immediately went out to get their hazmat suits.
My wife was in very close contact with the man who was not wearing a mask. She was.
We are now quarantining. My wife has no symptoms but she is staying in the guest bedroom. We are lucky we have two full master bedrooms so we can isolate pretty easily. We've discussed this scenario long ago so it has been fairly easy, although it is tough not being able to be close to her.
Her work has told her to continue working. She wears an n95 and face shield anyway so nothing has changed. However, if she begins showing symptoms she'll come home immediately.
She got tested yesterday and they mentioned they might do a rapid test today but have since said they won't. She will get tested again either tomorrow or Friday.