{"id":3249,"date":"2021-01-04T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:03:31","slug":"kaiser-permanente-staff-member-dies-after-covid-19-outbreak-in-emergency-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/kaiser-permanente-staff-member-dies-after-covid-19-outbreak-in-emergency-room\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Kaiser Permanente staff member dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pamela Cruz<\/strong>. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P]<\/strong>.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

After Kaiser Permanente Hospital officials reported Jan. 2 that between Dec. 27 and Jan. 1, 43 medical staff members in the unit's emergency department in San Jose tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, one of them has died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was reported by NBC News, which noted that the COVID-19 outbreak at that San Jose hospital was probably caused by a staff member who dressed up as a red-nosed Christmas tree in the emergency department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The costume, which was air-powered through a fan, was used with the intention of bringing joy to the medical center on Christmas Day, which could have circulated drops containing the coronavirus, The Washington Post noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement to The Post, Irene Chavez, senior vice president and area manager of the hospital, said that \"obviously, this is a 'very unusual' situation involving a well-meaning staff member acting on his or her own without notice or approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Any exposure, if it had occurred, would have been completely innocent and quite accidental, as the individual had no symptoms of covid,\" he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The outbreak is under investigation and contact tracing, to notify those patients or staff who may have been exposed to the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation comes after a spike in COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara County after many disobeyed warnings from health experts during the holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It's quite possible that we'll see an increase after the season, in the sense of Christmas, New Year, and as I've described it, as one increase after another\"<\/p>Dr. Anthony Fauci to CNN<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A mutant strain of the coronavirus that is believed to be more contagious than the existing strain has public health experts concerned that the new wave could have catastrophic consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be noted that during the weekend, the U.S. exceeded 350,000 deaths from COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The capacity of the Bay Area's Intensive Care Units (ICUs) as of Sunday was 8.4 percent, according to the state's COVID-19 website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles County, which has positioned itself as the epicenter of COVID-19 nationally, is part of a Southern California region that reports 0.0 percent ICU capacity, as does the San Joaquin Valley region, which also has zero ICU capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One South Bay hospital reported that it maximized its capacity last week and sent patients to extra beds.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pamela Cruz. Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press [P360P]. Luego de que funcionarios del Hospital Kaiser Permanente informaran este 2 de enero que, entre el 27 de diciembre y el 1 de enero, 43 miembros del personal m\u00e9dico del departamento de emergencias de la unidad en San Jos\u00e9, dieran positivo a la prueba para SARS-CoV-2, uno de ellos […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,170,12],"tags":[273,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-3249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-covid19","9":"category-health","10":"tag-ccj","11":"tag-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}