Sending home COVID-positive nursing home staff means worse outcomes for patients, study says Sending nursing staff home who are mildly ill with COVID-19 could lead to unnecessary patient hospitalizations, deaths, and costs, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. The City University of New York Medical Xpress

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When nursing home staff who test positive for COVID-19 are sent home, this can worsen an already present understaffing problem, resulting in even more missed resident care tasks, resident hospitalizations and deaths, and costs, according to the study's authors.

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