Covid 19 and Healthcare Heroes

 As many nurses have now died from coronavirus than were killed during the entirety of the First World War, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has revealed.

The president has not ordered the production of N95s, the CDC has adjusted PPE requirements to “supply,” not infection control, OSHA has been slow to act. The House of Representatives has passed a bill calling for an OSHA Standard to protect Healthcare Workers but it has died in the Senate. Hospitals claim an “adequate” supply of PPE, yet require its reuse and refuse to make inventory numbers public. Nurses such as AFT Connecticut, AFT Nurses & Health Professionals, Backus Nurses have been forced to go on strike to get changes. 

I want to thank my congressman, Joe Courtney, (and others) for being a champion for healthcare workers. 

Don’t call us heroes and treat us like zeros.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-nurse-death-world-war-one-ww1-b1448185.html