CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Visitor restrictions are in place at the Jesse Brown Medical Center in Chicago after a COVID-19 outbreak reportedly spread by an employee killed one patient and sickened at least 17 others.
“All of these patients are vaccinated, and yet when a sick staff member came to work several days in a row, they exposed many patients to COVID who were here for other reasons,” Dr. Sarah Unterman, the hospital’s chief of staff, wrote in a memo to employees.
In the memo, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, Unterman continued, “We have committed very real harm to a large number of patients this week.”
Two high-risk patients who caught COVID-19 are one over 90 and one awaiting a lung transplant.
Unterman wrote the outbreak was a “horrific and disturbing” situation, also noting that many staff members had not been wearing masks.
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