Riverside County employee’s COVID-19 death could have been prevented, lawsuit alleges

Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 11 January 2022 | JEFF HORSEMAN

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A family alleges that Riverside County is liable for an employee’s death from COVID-19 and his wife’s debilitating “long-haul” virus symptoms after ignoring his pleas to work from home and implement safeguards at his workplace.

Michael Haywood’s widow and one of his adult sons held a news conference Monday, Jan. 10, outside Riverside County Superior Court, where attorney V. James DeSimone’s firm planned to file the lawsuit alleging wrongful death and violating state regulations protecting disabled workers....

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Does she have a case?: Infected Dec 2020; Died Feb 2021. Unvaccinated, age 61

as of Dec 30, 2020 the state continued under a 'stay at home/essentials only' order (various curfews/travel outside of home county limits): From Calif Health dept, " As of December 30, a total of 335,983 vaccine doses have been administered statewide. As of December 28, a total of 1,762,900 vaccine doses have been distributed to local health departments and health care systems that have facilities in multiple counties."

Haywood would have been ineligible for vaccination prior to Jan because 1) limited supply; and 2) age group priorities in Calif with the new vaccine going to first responders and elderly care homes, and politicians like AOC who bumped seniors out of line.

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The continued fall-out of this mess will be staggering, IMO. And it is a mess. Man-made.

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Maybe once employers realize THEY can be left holding the bag for liability they might not be so quick to enforce Biden’s lock-step mandates.

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if people start suing for ‘infected at work’, wouldn’t restrictions go more draconian?

What clouds this case is, it’s dealing with a period of time where the vaccine was not readily available to the public. If the deceased was symptomatic on Dec 14, 2020, and with a 7-10 day incubation for Alpha, would the first dose of a vaccine given prior to say, Dec 4, have prevented death? Would ‘work at home’ have prevented death?