A poll worker knew she had the coronavirus and worked Election Day anyway. She died soon after.

[malaise]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/06/covid-missouri-poll-worker-died-election/

Less than a week before Election Day, an election judge supervisor in Missouri who was scheduled to work the polls got her coronavirus test results. She was positive, a private lab told her on Oct. 30, which meant she had to isolate for two weeks.

Instead, the unidentified St. Charles County, Mo., resident showed up and worked the polls on Tuesday. She died soon afterward, the St. Charles County Department of Public Health revealed Thursday.

As of late Thursday evening, the woman’s exact time and cause of death was not known, Mary Enger, a spokeswoman for St. Charles County, told The Washington Post. Authorities have not made the woman’s identity public.

Nearly 2,000 voters cast ballots on Election Day at the Blanchette Park Memorial Hall polling site where the woman worked, but it’s unclear whether any voter might have had direct contact with her.

“We don’t have any idea how many people would have had contact with this person,” Enger told The Post.
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Why hasn't this woman's name been made public?

[Pachamama]

1. I really hope that contact tracing and communication to anyone who was a fellow poll worker or staff

....as well as through local media is letting people know so they can get tested and self quarantine in the meantime.

This is really disgusting to hear that someone who KNOWS would then go ahead and endanger the lives of others like that.

Well, guess she paid the ultimate price - but that she is guilty of killing others remains to now be determined....

[malaise]

2. More criminal negligence

Darwin settled her score but no doubt she exposed innocent people

[Celerity]

4. that someone who KNOWS would then go ahead and endanger the lives of others like that.

[malaise]

7. Perfect

and he is the leading criminal on this one.

[thesquanderer]

13. I can see how it happens without her being a terrible person.

She could have been thinking, "I'm not feeling that bad, and I'll be wearing a mask to protect other people, and the other people will be wearing a mask to help protect themselves as well, and I can keep using the hand sanitizer... and I've got kids to feed and no money and a I REALLY need the pay for the day."

As the article says, "All of the county’s poll workers, who were separated from voters by plexiglass barriers on Tuesday, were required to wear masks or face shields at all times" -- If everyone followed protocol, then even being in a room with someone who has the virus should be very unlikely to give you the virus. After all, that's the reason we have these protections in the first place. Not because we think everyone around us is healthy, but because we know there's a not-insignificant chance that someone around us is sick. And as Fauci, Redifled, et al keep telling us, masks work.

[Celerity]

14. I was commenting on Trump. I do not have sufficient information to 100% toss the poll worker

under the bus completely. It does not look good though. I do see your argument as potentially valid.

[thesquanderer]

5. re:"hope that contact tracing and communication to anyone who was a fellow poll worker or staff"

The article says they are doing that.

[Pachamama]

6. Saying and doing are two different things

Again - I repeat - I really hope that there is contact tracing and communication to anyone who was a fellow poll worker or staff...

[thesquanderer]

9. Here's what the article says:

Epidemiologists have begun contacting the other nine election workers who were present at the polling site that day, Enger said, and advised them all to get coronavirus tests. Contact tracers are also in touch with the woman’s relatives to determine any places she might have visited before testing positive.

I assume the Washington Post is not "fake news" and that, if they reported this, it happened.

[Pachamama]

11. Your concern is duly noted

[Hugin]

10. +1

No kidding, Pachamama.

The virus is immune to lip service. It's now put up or shut up.

[Srkdqltr]

3. If she was that close to death didn't anyone notice she was sick? Amazing

[JI7]

12. With this Virus I think there are cases where they can seem ok and the end comes pretty fast

[thesquanderer]

8. re: "Why hasn't this woman's name been made public?"

I'm not sure what benefit there would be to that. And in this crazy time of social media doxxing and the like, it might endanger her family. I suppose HIPAA may also prohibut publicizing anyone's health status without their consent (or consent of a surviving representative).

They are contact tracing including the rest of the poll workers. As the article says, her position would not typically have put her in direct contact with voters, but they did make the location public, so anyone who knows they voted at that location knows they could have been in contact with someone who had been in contact with her. Knowing her name wouldn't help anyone, it's not like people typically know the names of the people manning their polling location anyway, even the ones they meet, much less the supervisors who they are not directly interacting with.