Is it a violation of the Eighth Amendment if a health and social services official was not aware of the risk to the patient at the time the patient was admitted?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Grant v. Cal. Dep't of Corr., Case No. 1:17-cv-00682-DAD-JLT (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2019):

official should have been aware of the risk, but was not, then the official has not violated the Eighth Amendment, no matter how severe the risk.'" Id. (quoting Gibson v. County of Washoe, Nevada, 290 F.3d 1175, 1188 (9th Cir. 2002)).

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