ST. LOUIS _ Employees of a nursing home here joined the Missouri state health care workers' union Monday in demanding paid sick leave and other protections after learning that a co-worker died of COVID-19.
Cynthia Whitfield, 58, of Jennings died April 21 of the disease, a week after she was hospitalized at SSM Health St. Mary's, said her daughter Jasmine Whitfield, 25.
A certified medical technician at Grand Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation, Cynthia Whitfield was awaiting COVID-19 test results when she told her employers April 10 that she was short of breath and severely fatigued, her daughter said. A handful of other employees had tested positive for the disease after an outbreak there sickened dozens of residents.
