April 7, 2020 / By Ryan Young, Jake Carpenter and Eric Levenson, CNN
(CNN) – About 2,200 workers in Michigan’s two largest health care systems have coronavirus symptoms or have tested positive for the virus, a total that further hampers efforts to fight the pandemic and shows the dangers facing frontline workers.
Beaumont Health, Michigan’s largest health care system with 38,000 employees, has about 1,500 staff members staying home because they have symptoms consistent with Covid-19.
“We are following CDC guidelines and asking staff to stay home when they are sick and/or have Covid-19 symptoms,” Beaumont Health media relations director Mark Geary told CNN.