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B.C. nurse who recovered from COVID-19 warns health-care workers about returning to work too soon (RN Mahi Etminan, SPH)

A B.C. nurse who's recovering from COVID-19 is warning other health-care professionals against returning to work too soon. (Photo credit: Global News)

A Vancouver nurse who has recovered from COVID-19 is concerned that staffing problems could lead some nurses, doctors and health-care professionals who become sick with the novel coronavirus disease to return to work too soon.

Mahi Etminan, a registered nurse at Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital, no longer has COVID-19 but says she was surprised by how long the symptoms could linger.

“I had a chest X-ray, and it showed that my lungs are still quite inflamed, and I ended up being on a puffer,” she said.

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