Maybe the hospital has run out of critical supplies such as plastic canopies / hoods to transport arrivals to the COVID ward. Maybe the alternative was to leave the young patient in the intake area of the hospital for a period of time infecting many others.
This doesn't seem like a terrible stop-gap measure to me. It sounds like a good emergency improvisation.
Those aren’t plastic bags, are they. They’re oxygen tents. Do you see that kid getting any oxygen? Nope! They even had a useless mask on her......in a plastic bag.....with breathing issues, for 30 minutes, with NO OXYGEN.
In the U.S. we haven’t used Canopies for many decades.
Some European countries still used them.
Based only on pictures I saw from a Covid ward in Italy I saw some canopies being used.
There are ways of dealing with people that are combative for any number of reasons.
Placing a plastic bag over someone’s head is idiotic and shows the lack of ability to work with people, which is part of the job.
A portable O2 tank with an O2 mask would have prevented this story.
There is a picture of it at the link
Stop trying to manufacture a rationalization for the inexcusable