Update, Tuesday, Dec. 15:
Columnist note: After writing the above article, I learned that Alaska’s SB 241 states that “an employee who contracts the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is conclusively presumed to have contracted an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of employment (if the worker) is employed as a firefighter, emergency medical technician, paramedic, peace officer, or health care provider (and) is exposed to COVID-19 in the course of employment” and is diagnosed by a physician by way of either a “presumptive positive COVID-19 test result” or a “laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis.”
Original story: Q: I’m a registered nurse who almost died from COVID-19 respiratory failure. I work in a nursing home where other employees have been infected with COVID-19 and where patients have died due to COVID-19. I filed a workers’ compensation claim.