'We are really afraid now — there are nurses writing their wills,' said an Oakland nurse.
and others, have said that together they will donate millions of masks — in some cases from their own wildfire and earthquake preparedness stockpiles — to medical professionals.Five of the eight people NBC News spoke to, four nurses and a nurse anesthetist, spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. They all said Kaiser leaders' decisions were based on mitigating supply shortages rather than on science.
after having raised questions internally about the availability of personal protective equipment."They're putting our families in danger, and they're putting our co-workers in danger." Kaiser spokesman Marc Brown said in an email that Fry's leave"did not involve a matter of employee safety." The nurses said their hospitals' guidelines around the coronavirus have changed and are not in line with state directions, particularly around the use of N95 masks, which can filter out air particles that carry the virus and are considered by the hospital as necessary only for confirmed cases, and even then only during particular stages of treatment.
"These are institutions that say that they are providing safe and effective health care, and they're not," said registered nurse Deborah Burger, co-president of the
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