US health workers without gear, training exposed to Covid-19 | The Malaysian Insight

A young traveller wearing a mask seen at San Francisco airport earlier this month. The US has confirmed 61 cases of Covid-19 infection. – EPA pic, February 28, 2020.

FEDERAL health employees were sent to interact with repatriated Americans quarantined for exposure to Covid-19 without wearing protective gear or receiving training, said a whistle-blower complaint cited by US media yesterday. The filing, which was seen by The Washington Post and The New York Times, was submitted by a senior official with the Health and Human Services Department , who said she was improperly reassigned after raising her concerns and threatened with being fired if she did not comply.

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