And gee, I wonder what sort of TB-ridden part-time “worker” spread the disease in the squalid Sanctuary City of San Francisco? A Swede perhaps? Those pesky French?
960 babies in TB scare at Kaiser in S.F.
Kaiser Permanente is contacting 960 mothers whose babies may have been exposed to a health care worker in San Francisco who has an active case of tuberculosis. The worker was assigned to the postpartum unit in the maternity ward of Kaiser’s San Francisco Medical Center to care for mothers and infants. Kaiser officials say the infection risk for patients is very low, but testing will be provided along with treatment if necessary.
Kaiser also is notifying 115 employees who may have been exposed.
960 babies. Sanctuary City policies kill Americans. With horrific events like this and the murders of the Bologna family by an illegal, SF city officials should be arrested on criminal aiding-and-abetting charges.
This is why I have to be starving to eat in a restruant here in L.A. The Illegals are hired as day labor to handle fresh food and do salad prep and such with virtually no screening. Tuberculosis and Hepatitis outbreaks happen frequently as a result and are simply suppressed and swept under the rug. T.B. is as contageous as the common cold, and it’s a much tougher bug. Just one cough into a lettuce bin and you’ve got an outbreak, and it can take a year for symtoms to get rolling. Hepatitis can contaminate food from a cut finger.
I grew up in St. Louis, MO. When I was 16, my first job was at a fast food place (Jack-in-the-Box). Before they would even let me in the kitchen, I had to go to the County Health Services and get a T.B. tine test and a chest X-ray. Seems only prudent. Well worth the tax money. They also had the A-B-C food safety scores in the window of every food seller, including grocery stores. We only got that here, a few years ago. What are we doing here? We seem to prefer to treat the masses, and consider the ounce of prevention to be too costly.
Good grief! I am a nurse and must say this exposure to TB is inexcusable and blatant negligence. It is state law that all healthcare workers are screened for TB yearly. This is a great lawsuit waiting to happen!
Where are we living……..some third-world country?
With respect to both this case and the Bologna family’s suit, my own cursory research hasn’t answered this question, so I thought I’d ask if any Tammy peeps know: do cities and/or counties have sovereign immunity in California, or not? And if so, to what extent is it waived? I know the minutiae of this subject in Florida, but it’s an area of law where the states vary hugely.