Could Asymptomatic Covid positive healthcare workers treat Covid patients in Covid units

[Eloise12]

Just a thought with the nhs staffing crisis

That would require just the right type of healthcare professionals to be covid positive and well enough to work at the right time.
It’s unworkable.

Short answer - no.

And what about when they’re sat on public transport getting to work? Or walking to the covid unit?
I don’t actually know very many adults who have been totally asymptomatic, it’s much more common in children. And as people have rightly pointed out NHS staff are rather varied in the skills they have, and sending people to work on the covid unit isnt going to help the staffing in other areas. Covid unit is a small number of patients. It’s staff absence in all the other areas that’s the problem!

I can see the logic but there's more than one strain of Covid, could patients sick with Delta also contract Omicron concurrently?

Also the long term ICU patients no longer technically have Covid they are suffering from the effects of the illness. Could they be reinfected?

I don't know the answer to those questions but they seem like things that should be known before knowingly letting infectious people on to a ward of already sick people.

Absolutely not workable at all . They would still come into contact while getting changed , using bathroom , dining room and yes getting to their ward .

NSW Health as announced that they will be calling back asymptomatic positive workers because they are so short staffed.

They are doing this in Canada.

Sack the unvacvinated ones but let covid positive ones loose on the patients? That's an interesting decision.

They are doing it in Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/03/covid-positive-nurses-are-working-in-nsw-hospitals-due-to-severe-staffing-shortages

@MaxNormal

Sack the unvacvinated ones but let covid positive ones loose on the patients? That's an interesting decision.

That’s Australian government for you. Now we have food shortages due to truck drivers not working and food about to go off because they absolutely refuse to let unvaccinated work. I hate our government with a passion.

@MaxNormal

Sack the unvacvinated ones but let covid positive ones loose on the patients? That's an interesting decision.

Exactly just like they plan to sack this consultant who doesn't want the jabs as he's got natural immunity and quite rightly questions the efficacy of the jabs. It's so refreshing to finally get someone on mainstream media questioning this lunacy!

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-sajid-javid-directly-challenged-on-mandatory-coronavirus-jabs-by-unvaccinated-nhs-doctor-12511224

California now too.

Good points @OvaHere