Santa Clara County has fined Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center $43,000 for delays in reporting a coronavirus outbreak that has swelled from 43 to 60 emergency department staffers and killed one employee. “An important question to figure out is who was the index case,” said Linsey Marr, an aerosols expert and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech. If the person in the costume is the index case, Jimenez said he didn’t expect the costume would have made a huge difference in spreading the virus. The outbreak at Kaiser San Jose coincides with a surge of new cases and deaths in Santa Clara County around the holidays. The county said the outbreak was not caused by the recent, more infectious variant of the virus first identified in Britain.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 08, 2021 17:29 UTC