LOS ANGELES — Experts are warning that employees might be showing up to work while sick with COVID-19, with symptoms so mild even health care workers are being fooled.
It has long been known that people experiencing mild or no symptoms can spread the coronavirus to others. But health experts are now noting that more people who are experiencing very mild illness are working anyway — exacerbating the transmission risk.
Dr. Ralph Gonzales, a UC San Francisco associate dean, said at a recent campus town hall that the latest dominant omicron subvariant, BA.5, can result in symptoms so mild that health care workers are still working despite the illness. Some people are not testing positive until four or five days after they start showing symptoms of COVID-19.
