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L.A. nurses protest COVID-positive healthcare workers being allowed back to work without isolation

By KTLA  
   January 12, 2022

A group of nurses gathered in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday to speak out against new California state guidance that lets coronavirus-positive health care workers return to work amid the staffing shortages hitting hospitals.

The California Department of Public Health issued new guidance over the weekend that lets healthcare workers who test positive for the virus or are exposed to it to return to work immediately — without isolation and without testing — if they are asymptomatic and wearing N95 masks.

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