I’m a high risk patient. Self isolating since March. No grocery stores, post office, pharmacy etc - everything delivered and sterilized. Had to go to dentist to cement a crown. Got sick over the next two days. Tested covid negative but have had trouble breathing, sleeping, had to go on steroids, go to urgent care, affected work. The dental office was aware I was high risk. Had no processes in place for screening patients or employees for fever etc. Dentist overbooked and kept shuffling between 1-3 rooms where used a drill that produces aerosols. Didn’t change mask, didn’t wash hands between gloves, touched his glasses with gloves. Staff also touched surfaces in gloves that were touched with bare hands before. This was the first and only place I’ve been to since February, they were careless, and I am still not able to recover - regardless of whether this is covid that was false negative or another repository infection I contracted in the office.
Sorry, but if you are the "boy in the bubble" then you will need to get with your immunologist and make sure that you have access to special dental faciltiies. Cementing a crown is not a medical emergency and you had ample opportunity to locate a dentist that would abide any special needs you might have. There simply is no viable claim for anything based on your getting a "respiratory" disease of unknown etiology or origin. Just because YOU link it to the dental issue does not make it so, and there is no viable damage for two days of being sick.
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