Commentary: When an asymptomatic, COVID-positive doctor is still treating patients, we’re losing a war
by Mark Morocco, Los Angeles Times
Jan 19, 2022
3 minutes
I’ve been dodging COVID since March 2020. Back then, I would have been appalled at having asymptomatic doctors and nurses infected with COVID treating patients, which state officials now say is permissible.
Now I see this as a necessity.
We’re losing this war.
Omicron is surging in huge numbers, a wave bred in the unvaccinated, the uneducated and the uncaring. People are flooding our hospitals during the worst time of the year for ERs: winter, when flu and other respiratory diseases spike.
It’s a
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