Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

Diabetics may be forced to self-isolate at home after lockdown is lifted, government review suggests.

I know of some pretty high level Managers at Wells Fargo that have told me they are diabetic.
Looks like the government may force them to continue to stay at home and work remotely,
if possible.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/diabetics-may-forced-self-isolate-105947800.html

Diabetics may be forced to self-isolate at home after lockdown is lifted, government review suggests
Tom Morgan
May 23, 2020, 6:59 AM EDT
Diabetics could be forced to shield at home against Covid-19 following a review by government scientists after it emerged sufferers are at significantly greater risk of dying if they catch the virus.
Professor Peter Horby, chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) advisory group, confirmed to the Telegraph that diabetes was being considered as part of an "active review" of the most vulnerable groups.
Almost one in three deaths from coronavirus in hospital had diabetes, it emerged this week, and the professor of emerging infectious Diseases and Global Health at Oxford's Nuffield Department of Medicine is now in advanced discussions with other government advisors.
Most diabetics are currently classed as "clinically vulnerable" rather than the "clinically extremely vulnerable" - the worst affected group of people who received letters from their doctors telling them they must stay at home under almost all circumstances.

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Read in the news today that 1 in 10 people that are diabetic die within 1 week of contracting corona virus. That is sad news. Hope they get to continue to telecommute, if possible.

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Post ID: @7uqj+158euIeq

Regarding layoffs of the ones on disability; I have been on disability for 1 1/2 years and I am not laid off. So they should be fine.

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Post ID: @5fow+158euIeq

What about over 60 years old and high blood pressure..

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Post ID: @4trb+158euIeq

If you are diabetic, or compromised in any other way, STAY HOME AND PROTECT YOURSELF. Our country can not collapse because of a small minority of the population. Do you really think everything should stay shut down because of a small amount of our populatin?

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Post ID: @1naa+158euIeq

"often deadly Corona virus"..........get your FACTS right. SMH.....FAKE NEWS

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Post ID: @1fqr+158euIeq

This could be a reasonable ADA exemption

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Post ID: @1cpc+158euIeq

Will employees sick with corona virus, in ICU, with many months to recover from the virus, on short term disability, get to the top of the lay off list? Even if it was a Wells Fargo office where they first acquired it. That is the layoff related topic.

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Hopefully Wells Fargo will allow their employees who are in the corona virus "high risk" for death categories to continue to work remotely, if their job position allows for that possibility. Diabetics are not the only ones deemed "high risk" to die from corona virus. All it takes is for one corona virus infected employee to be in the enclosed office environment, office elevators, office rest rooms, etc. to spread the corona virus to everyone else in the office. Compounding the spread by having other employees catch it and infecting people on other office building floors. No one wants to catch the often deadly corona virus. Then come home and infect their family as well.

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Post ID: @1per+158euIeq

Same here.. Hope it is addressed in the appropriate fashion

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Post ID: @oqp+158euIeq

Not good to hear this bc I’m diabetic and since this pandemic started the stress of it affects me. I am concerned about how this is going to work out bc I don’t want to get sick.

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