Poll of the Day > This was the CHRISTMAS TREE that INFECTED 43 and KILLED 1 at a HOSPITAL!!!

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A California Nurse has defended her colleague who wore the now infamous CHRISTMAS TREE COSTUME that was responsible for SPREADING COVID-19 that Infected 44 and KILLED 1 at a Hospital!!

The unidentified employee wore a novelty air-powered inflatable costume at the wards at Kaiser Pemarnente San Jose Medical Centre on Christmas and in the days followed that, 44 employees tested positive including one female staffer who later died

It is now thought that the costume is responsible for it with droplets across the ward from the female wearer who did not know she had COVID at the time

A colleague told the media that all she wanted to do was to provide some "innocent" festive relief to her co workers and patients and that she was "spreading joy"

The nurse surprised everyone at the central nurses station at the emergency ept by appearing dressed in the costume between 9-10

She said "You just see this Christmas tree come bounding down towards you and it makes you smile. It was a brief moment of levity, and you get back to working"

She said she stayed 6 feet away and wore a mask and face shield along with everyone else

It was a "spur of the moment" and insisted everyone was happy to see.

The nurse said "They painted us in a light of being irresponsible when we've been working our butts off to save lives. We're not seeing our families. It portrayed us as not caring about or community"

Days after this incident, many felt ill and showing symptoms and the woman wearing the costume had no symptoms but later tested positive .

Between Dec 27 to Jan 1 is when the 44 staffers were tested positive and on Sunday, one staff member had died

The woman who wore the costume is said to be a registration clerk working on Christmas Day. She is now feeling a big "heavy burden" of loss as she's struggling to get her head around how the costume could have done this

The Santa Clara County Health Dept is now investigating

Do you think the worker should be fired?

Killer Tree -

https://i.imgur.com/ZnA6I5P.jpg

Hospital -

https://i.imgur.com/FcBFdql.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0mFJXLd.jpg
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If it was reasonable for her to know that such an outcome could result from this, it would have been opposed by operation protocol. I'd say this was a tragic accident, and the action that needs to be taken is getting the word out that such costumes can defeat pandemic precautionary measures, and not to use them in enclosed environments, not terminating a devoted and caring employee who didn't know something that wasn't common knowledge for anyone else either.

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Shadowbird_RH posted...

If it was reasonable for her to know that such an outcome could result from this, it would have been opposed by operation protocol. I'd say this was a tragic accident, and the action that needs to be taken is getting the word out that such costumes can defeat pandemic precautionary measures, and not to use them in enclosed environments, not terminating a devoted and caring employee who didn't know something that wasn't common knowledge for anyone else either.

^100%

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Shadowbird_RH posted...

If it was reasonable for her to know that such an outcome could result from this, it would have been opposed by operation protocol. I'd say this was a tragic accident, and the action that needs to be taken is getting the word out that such costumes can defeat pandemic precautionary measures, and not to use them in enclosed environments, not terminating a devoted and caring employee who didn't know something that wasn't common knowledge for anyone else either.

Sounds about right. I'm not surprised that the costume would pose an infection hazard, but I also would never have considered it without hearing about an incident like this (which I have not, prior to this topic/article). This is something that needs to be incorporated into infection control guidelines moving forward, but I don't think she should be retroactively punished for what seems to have been a reasonable, innocent mistake.

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Full Throttle posted...

Killer Tree -

But it covers her face.

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Full Throttle posted...

she's struggling to get her head around how the costume could have done this

ah, yes. giant costume that functions by circulating air from a fan to keep it inflated, how could it have possibly spread something by the air

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