Fifteen staff members at Holyoke Medical Center in Holyoke, Mass., tested positive for COVID-19, in an outbreak that may have originated in a hospital break room, according to an article on the WWLP website.
A medical center spokesperson said that it is believed that the staff members had been eating together.
The incident is somewhat similar to an outbreak at Baystate Medical Center in July.
That outbreak was linked in part to the lack of social distancing in a break room.
In that case, 23 employees and 13 patients had tested positive for COVID-19, at least in part due to the lack of social distancing and wearing of masks in a hospital break room, according to an earlier WWLP article.
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