Column: Nurses know we were unprepared. They're being punished for speaking out
The very fact that this equipment needs to be rationed is a scandalous commentary on American public health preparedness.
The cases at St. John’s illustrate Castillo’s point. The suspensions began the morning of April 9, when several nurses arrived at the first-floor unit reserved for patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 or were awaiting test results. They were issued paper masks. But the issue that confronted Halmy and her colleagues wasn’t scarcity; she and other nurses say their supervisors never claimed that the supply of N95 masks at St. John’s was so short that the supply needed to be conserved. Rather, the practice was based on protocols set down by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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