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I did not file. So I was off for 26 days minus one day in the middle. They forced me to come out of quarantine because I hadn’t had a fever for 3 days and I was right at day 14 of quarantine even though I was still obviously very sick. I worked one shift when home and got even worse. At 28 years old my resting O2 sat sitting on the couch was 92%. Left that out because I was trying not to make it too lengthy for you guys

Absolutely I work for a county hospital at one of the two large ones. They are referred to sister hospitals. And I’m at the smaller of the two. Not sure if I will get in trouble for directly naming it. I’m new on here. I don’t know all the rules

Hi there. I had a very similar experience at a level 1 I work at in LA. I have been in the ED/trauma for 5 years now, went in out of school. When this first started we immediately had all PPE taken from us and locked away. We only had access to gloves and an N95 would not be issued unless the patient tested positive. At this time tests results were taking 7-10days. So that whole time you were only given one surgical mask for the entire shift and no N95 not even during aerosolizing procedures. I got in a confrontation with my manager because I had a highly likely covid patient. She refused to give me a N95 and wouldn’t give me a replacement surgical mask which had been soiled with blood during a thoracotomy. She rolled her eyes, ridiculed me, and even cursed in front of patients and other staff at the nurses station for simply asking. They had 6 boxes approx 3ft by 3ft full of N95s in the charge office which we all knew were in there yet she continued to refuse. I got angry and left. We were not allowed to bring in our own PPE either. 5 mins after this argument a code assist was called to our parking lot. I happened to be the closest so I sprinted out to find a 38 yr old woman who had her child in the car as well in severe respiratory distress and she arrested in front of me. With no PPE I started compressions and Continued to run the code in the hospital for 20 mins until someone put a mask on my face. A physician then attempted to take it off of me saying I didn’t need one only the docs do because they get closer to the patients during intubation, I was doing CPR. I told him I would leave him toothless if he came anywhere near me. We called it and our infectious disease doc walked in stating it wasn’t a covid case, which it clearly was, no one fill out a sign in sheet. We won’t even test her. Three days later I’m called into employee health and told that I was exposed and reprimanded and written up for not wearing proper PPE that I was denied access too. I’m quarantined and sent home and told that they would be paying me out of my own hours. I became sick on day 4 of quarantine and was sick for 26 days. Back at work and suddenly every room is airborne precautions and everyone is mandated to wear a mask at all times even though they are still being reused even between patients. I was told the same thing if I tested negative (I was positive) I wouldn’t be paid period. I’m suffering right now and doing my best to keep it together mentally. 26 days was a long time to be alone and dwell on this absolute Lack of care for our lives. Is any of this legal? I’m so close to handing my manager my badge and kicking his ***