Staffing shortages are so severe that California is considering canceling elective surgeries, as happened during the worst of last year’s peak.
The emergency entrance of UCSF Hellen Diller Medical Center Hospital in San Francisco on March 20, 2020.On Saturday, in response to hospitals begging for relief from a massive staffing crisis, the California Department of Public Healththat most hospitals and skilled nursing facilities can bring COVID-positive and exposed staff back to work without testing or quarantines.
, an associate professor of emergency medicine at UCSF, determined that 70% of them were in the hospital for other reasons.
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