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New York nurses decry lack of protective equipment

Nurses in New York, the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak in the US, say they lack protective equipment to work with, which endangers their colleagues and hospital patients who are not infected. – EPA pic, April 3, 2020.

“SOLDIERS don’t go to war without guns, why should nurses come to work without protective equipment?” asked Leyrose McIntyre, one of around 30 nurses demonstrating outside a New York hospital yesterday. The protest, rare in the age of social distancing, was over a lack of masks, gowns, and other protective equipment for health workers treating coronavirus patients in the epicentre of America’s deadly pandemic.

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