New York Hospital Workers Forgo Tests and Gulp Back Fears

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New York area hospitals are so inundated by Covid-19 cases that they are no longer able to test medical workers who fear their exposure to sickened patients may have made them ill.

With cases rising at an alarming rate in the region, hospital executives confirmed that dozens of their own medical workers have been stricken by the virus. Some hospitals are abandoning tests of workers who show no symptoms and are sending them back to ...