I'm working at a major hospital and they are disciplining employees for wearing masks unless directly taking care of confirmed Covid 19 patients. We currently have 50 confirmed cases and over 40 waiting test results. Those are just the patients admitted, no telling how many are in the ER as I type this.
Meanwhile other major hospitals in the area are mandating every employee wear masks at all times. You get one mask for a five day period.
This is also what they are trying to do at my wife's hospital in northern Ohio. We were lucky enough to grab a couple 10 packs of N95 masks before this all really kicked off into full gear.
My wife works part time two 12 hour shifts per week in the ICU and starting last week she began wearing a mask at all times while in the hospital.
Her supervisor immediately told her to take it off saying it was only allowed if she was directly caring for a Covid patient but she refused saying that she brought it from home so it's not wasting hospital stock and that if they don't like it she'll be happy to go home, if they want to fire her to go ahead and do so because she will make more money as a travel nurse probably coming back to the same hospital.
Apparently it was all bark and no bite because she hasn't heard another word about it since standing up for herself.
The bottom line is health care workers are being infected at a tremendously fast rate because these hospitals are breeding grounds for this thing.