Nurse Candice Cordero, who works in a hospital in an American state, was still suffering from a fever and cough when she received an email asking her to return to work, seven days after she contracted the Corona virus.
The hospital relied on recent health instructions allowing patients to return to work days after the injury, but Cordero, who said she could still be a carrier, refused to return.
newspaper quotes Washington Post Cordero said, “People should go to hospitals when they are safe from infection.”
Hospitals are increasingly asking employees infected with the coronavirus to work, the newspaper says, adding that this is a clear indication that the Omicron mutant has infected the workforce so badly that hospitals have ignored about two years of strict health protocols due to a shortage of workers.
And American health guidelines allowed to reduce the isolation period from ten to five days, while allowing workers to return “as long as symptoms are mild and improve,” and officials say that even with these facilities, it may not be possible to maintain the flow of work in hospitals.
Federal data shows that more than twenty percent of US hospitals reported a “severe staff shortage” in the past week, while 30 percent expect similar problems next week.
With the difficulties affecting the health sector, rates of infection with the Corona virus have reached record rates, with about 160,000 people infected with the virus being admitted to hospitals last Thursday.
Healthcare facilities across the country have implemented the relaxed guidance in recent weeks, although some medical groups have expressed serious concerns about the protocol for returning to work for five days without testing.
schools
The problem of labor shortages extends from hospitals to schools, as the education system struggles to keep schools open.
While many officials and parents across the country are pushing to keep children in school and not restore the distance learning system, O’Micron has left many schools without many of the necessities to work, such as teachers, substitute teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers — and sometimes the students themselves.
About 10 percent of educational staff are absent continuously in some schools, and a larger number in others.
Also, many students are absent for long periods of time, which made schools resort to distance education at the same time that teaching is taking place in the teacher.
newspaper says The Wall Street Journal New York Mayor Eric Adams insists schools remain open, describing distance education as terrible for poor communities.
Educators and educational policy makers across the country said students were lagging behind in their studies and social development through distance learning.
The vast majority of the country’s nearly 100,000 public schools remain open, albeit barely in some cases.
With this, local administrations are struggling to provide cadres, as well as to provide safety and security requirements and an assistant system for distance education for absent students, as schools in the states witnessed several strikes and demonstrations from students and teachers alike.
This month, the Omicron mutant caused hospitalization rates for Covid-19 among children, according to the newspaper.
To help with the hiring crisis in schools, several states recently relaxed hiring rules, and in California, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an order aimed at making it easier for districts to hire qualified substitute teachers in the short term, while the Kansas Board of Education temporarily eased requirements for emergency replacement licensing.
The Biden administration said it will send schools 10 million test kits, more than double the volume of school tests in November.
The White House said it would help schools with “survival testing”, a strategy that allows students to stay in class after exposure to Covid-19 if they test negative at least twice over the next week while wearing masks.
manpower
In smaller towns, which have fewer workforces, Omicron causes big problems.
While Omicron is a problem for business even in big cities like New York, its impact on small towns and villages has been more severe.
newspaper says The New York Times The American government found that small, rural towns sometimes had to “scramble” for people to fill vacancies, when municipal clients, teachers, or health service providers were sick.
Some cities had to appoint one person in several places, as some people worked in the municipality, postal and fire departments at the same time to cover up the shortage of labor.
In other towns, about half of all public servants, numbering about twenty, contracted Covid at one time.
Because of the snow crisis in the city, the mayor had to drive himself and open the streets when employees were sick.
Other cities were forced to cancel their local council meetings because many members fell ill.
“In the long run, we’ve seen really strong economic challenges in rural America as the divide between urban and rural areas widens, but the pandemic has compounded these issues by exacerbating existing shortages,” said Brooks Renwater, director of the National Association of Cities’ City Solutions Center. in employment, which has made it difficult for small municipal agencies to quickly replenish staff if people are sick.”
The newspaper says that small towns do not suffer at the level of public services only, as the shops owned by the private sector close their doors for long periods due to the same problem, the shortage of labor.