“I know a few people who work in health care but do not have direct contact with patients. More admin/paperwork types. They have been sent home to work from home. Before that happened, I was hearing that workload was drastically down. I am wondering if one of the main reasons they’ve been sent home is so that there are fewer witnesses to the empty ERs.”
My son is an x-ray tech in the Minneapolis area. His hours have been cut back because there is no “elective” medicine being practiced now. No elective medical care means less money coming in.
I also sent him some N95 masks since he only gets one per day. His wife is also in the med field, but on the admin side and she, who is pregnant, can’t get any masks.
Hopefully, the SEIU stash they just found in Cali will be distributed across the US shortly.
Not only elective, but the majority of emergency surgeries would be way down too.