Online Public Relations Thoughts

 There has been a COVID super-spreader event in a San Jose, CA hospital belonging to the healthcare chain, Kaiser Permanente.  Ninety people were infected and one died.  The cause was apparently an employee who wore an inflatable costume to cheer up patients.  A fan in the costume blew micro-droplets around the wards.  To make matters worse, the virus is a mutated form of the disease, which is highly contagious.  It is a PR gaffe for the hospital and for Kaiser Permanente overall.  Healthcare providers want to cure disease and not cause it.  The hospital can claim it didn't know the variant was in the building, but that is too little, too late.  It should have known and the employee who wore the costume should have been tested before getting access to patients and others.  There are more questions now than answers, and there is need for an in-depth investigation into how it happened.