New York Hospital Workers Forgo Tests and Gulp Back Fears

Some hospitals in the U.S.’s leading coronavirus hot zone are abandoning tests of asymptomatic workers, sending them back to care for patients. Now, some staffers are patients themselves.

A medical worker speaks to patients outside a tent at the Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey, on March 17.Photographer: Jeff Rhode
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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.