After NBC News inquiries and a protest, the Mount Sinai hospitals will provide tests to all hospital workers with symptoms consistent with COVID-19.
One nurse, who agreed to speak anonymously, began to experience symptoms a few days after treating that patient. On March 13, the nurse called Mount Sinai's employee health hotline and described the symptoms: shortness of breath, fever, and an unrelenting, dry cough.The nurse's primary care physician referred the nurse to the state COVID hotline. The nurse said there was a two-hour wait to speak to someone, only to be told that no testing site could be located.
Other healthcare workers on unit 10B and beyond said that experience was common. Many told NBC News they had not been able to receive testing at the hospital, despite developing symptoms or being directly exposed to the virus. Many also say that they were told testing remained limited at the hospital, and was being reserved for patients experiencing acute respiratory syndrome.
In order to facilitate conservation of N-95 masks, the email said, they were now"only to be worn for aerosol-generating procedures."
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