FILE - Twenty thousand empty chairs were set up near the White House on Sunday to mourn the more than 200,000 lives lost in United States from COVID-19. (Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images)Nurse Sandra Oldfield’s patient didn’t have the usual symptoms of COVID-19 — yet.
But then he tested positive for the virus, and it was clear that Oldfield — a veteran, 53-year-old caregiver — had been exposed.She was sent home by Kaiser Permanente officials with instructions to keep careful notes on her condition.
And she did.“Temperature 97.1,” she wrote on March 26, her first log entry. Normal.She and her colleagues said they had felt unsafe at work and had raised concerns with their managers.