The <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> is continuing to publish statements and messages from nurses in response to last week’s tragic suicide of a nurse at Kaiser Permanente’s Santa Clara Medical Center in Northern California.
Health leaders confirmed it is linked to the outbreak at Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center that infected at least 15 patients and 74 hospital employees, including one who died. That was certainly a very unusual outbreak with a lot of illnesses and it seemed to spread quite fast, Santa Clara County Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said. We are trying to understand whether the features of that outbreak are because of this variant. Does this variant of the virus behave in some different way?
UCSF virologist Dr. Charles Chiu said scientists are also trying to understand if the new strain is more transmissible.
San Jose Kaiser at center of Christmas Day coronavirus outbreak among California s top COVID violators
By Lisa Fernandez
County fines Kaiser San Jose for Christmas Day COVID event
Santa Clara County fines Kaiser San Jose for Christmas Day COVID event. That s on top of more Cal OSHA fines the hospital is facing. Tom Vacar reports
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San Jose Kaiser at the center of what has become a deadly coronavirus outbreak just after Christmas is among the top COVID-workplace violators in California in terms of financial citations, according to a review of state records.
Cal-OSHA has fined the San Jose Kaiser a total of $85,375 for seven violations - four of them considered serious. The first round of fines came days after public health officials in the Bay Area realized just how serious coronavirus was in March of 2020, records show.