A nurse in Oregon who mocked the state’s pandemic protocols in a video that circulated on TikTok by saying she does not wear a mask in public has been placed on administrative leave, her employer said. The nurse, Ashley Grames, is an employee at Salem Health, which operates Salem Health Hospital in Salem, Ore., and other medical facilities treating Covid-19 patients in the state. Oregon has had at least 74,120 cases and 907 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a New York Times database. Salem Health said in a statement that members of the public had alerted the company to the video, which it said showed “cavalier disregard for the seriousness of this pandemic.”Local media reports said that Ms. Grames, who worked in the oncology unit, had posted the video from a TikTok account that has since been deleted and that the video was later republished in a “duet” version on the platform.

Source: New York Times November 30, 2020 18:33 UTC