"It is a long six hours to be in all that gear," said Amanda Adams, a travel nurse who works at an ER in the New York City suburbs."I try to put aside my emotions and cheer up the patients. Meanwhile, I am thinking which one is going to give it to me and am I going to get sick?"
"That also increases the fear. That it's hitting young people," said Roy Akarakian, an ER resident at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit."I'm worried and afraid about the overall situation. This is something we've never seen before." While in isolation and recovering, he was required to use his own vacation and sick time. After learning he had COVID-19, he says his employer"tried to pin those results on something outside the hospital." Probably, Edward said, because the hospital only provides fully paid emergency administrative leave if you can prove you caught it on the job.
"When I would tell people, they would physically back away from me, they would question whether I should be at work," he says."It was hard to go home at night and deal with those emotions." Arash Hosseini, a nurse from Bothell, Wash., says he was"obsessive" about wearing proper personal protective equipment. Still, his wife came down with many of the"classic symptoms" of COVID-19, but she wasn't sick enough to get tested.
"I feel like I am abandoning nurses, if I don't go," Prybylski says."But it gives me anxiety to know, if I go out there, I am going to be at risk every single day."With all the risks healthcare workers face, many hospitals are also admonishing them when they share their stories. Supervisors and administrators have sent out emails at various hospitals reminding healthcare workers not to speak to the press or post on social media.
Well, they seems to be turning away people of color with the symptoms of the virus. Not the behavior of heroes! This happened to the Black man in Houston with Ebola, they sent his ass home with aspirin.
AlinSLive Get together and tell them you are walking off the job at the end of the week and they'll let you talk all you want. Try it you'll see. Where are they going to get replacements
We were lied to about the protection a face mask offers so it’s no surprise health leaders want to censor more of the truth.
The men and women who faced 100x lethal doses of radiation from Chernobyl WISHED all they needed was a sterile mask. Radiation kills all, at least with Covid your body has a fighting chance and the death rate is relatively low.
Health workers must continue to speak out.
Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Who would sign such an agreement? Who would suggest such a rule?
Hospitals are corporations. They don't want the truth
When hired by 'for profit' hospitals you are told to sign that if you mention them in a negative way you will be fired.
They should speak up/out anyway. What are these hospitals going to do? Fire all of us?
we would rather hear from you than trump
Military & veterans know about this too!!!
Don't you know all communication with the media must go through the public relations officer...this is not news
IT JUST GOES TO SHOW MOST HEALTHCARE WORKERS ARE NOT HEROS, THEYRE ASS HOLES WHO ARE THERE FOR THE HIGH PAY AND WOULD LET YOU DIE IF YOU HAVE THE WRONG INSURANCE WHICH IS WHY ALL THE MINORTIES ARE DYING!
The people who run our government are more concerned with personal wealth and power than the lives of the people they swore to serve. But that's capitalism, isn't it? You poors only do 'well' if we make loads of money.
Hospitals, most, are run like a bottom line business. There is little budget room for stockpiling in case of future possible minimally likely events.
Anyone who is surprised at the incompetence of our government hasn’t been paying attention for the past few years.
This article makes no sense.... The flu epidemic is twice the amount as COVID-19.. And they handle that just fine...
Our country MUST expand it's mental health field (which is seriously lacking already). Unfortunately, if Trump succeeds, people with pre-existing conditions will be kicked off insurance meaning our heroes now may not be able to get treatment for their CPTSD.
Yea this is definitely more of a Chernobyl moment rather than a Pearl Harbor moment.
We need to ramp up PPE domestic production & imports. Federal government needs to do this ASAP. Healthcare staff like my ER nurse sister need protection & we need them. Until then, anyone who has the means to make or donate PPE, go to GetUsPPE getusppe
Without PPE, they can get the virus easily...
Republican America. Ain't it grand?
Our hearts and thoughts are with all of you in offering so much so others can live. We salute you.
It is nothing like Chernobyl. The people of Chernobyl would gladly trade for this scenario instead. Idiotic comparison.
I’m so tired of reading this already-debunked media propaganda.
NPR's Money Matters Show, tipped me off to the seriousness of the Covid 19 Pandemic! They told us that 3M was a good investment, their stock was going up, due to sales of masks to China. This should have been a red flag for everyone, instead it was portrayed as an opportunity!
Chernobyl.... really?
So much fucking failure
Front line Health care workers shouldn’t be putting their lives on the line when they are told to reuse PPE’s beyond recommended times of use. No one in WH or health care adminstration will do it if they are asked to swap places.
Chinese people can use masks made in China to defeat the epidemic. Americans even say that masks made in China have viruses. With this idea, you can only use the same mask for 5 days, so the virus will certainly trouble you.
If I sell it in China at the exchange rate of 3 us dollars, your income is a little inappropriate
tragic on so many levels
Shit sounds like NYCMayor and govschumer got some explaining to do.
People missing the point of analogies. She knows it's not really Chernobyl. But the feeling that she's walking into a situation that could very well kill her is as close to what that might have been like that she can think of. What situation have you been in that felt like that?
And people walking the streets have new N95 masks everyday....!
The Gov of NY said they are sufficiently supplied. Chernobyl? talk about sensationalism! what a tall tale you tell.
Yeah it’s nothing like walking into Chernobyl. 🙄
Can we get a video of a crazy lady crying into a camera?
Personally, I'd call out sick until they gave me PPE and would encourage my peers to do likewise. You want to see PPE materialize out of nowhere? Threaten administration with having to handle contagious patients themselves.
Jacklyn was at Chernobyl? Damn!
I, uh, understand the seriousness of c19, but I absolutely reject comparisons to chernobyl. And Ive. only watched it on TV. Unless she’s actually been to Chernobyl. So much wrong with this statement.
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“Tremendous amounts of supplies are already on hand. We have 43 million masks, which is far more than anyone would have assumed we could have had so quickly, and a lot more are coming.” - realDonaldTrump Feb 29
No hyperbole here folks. The chance of surviving Covid 19 unprotected is around 97%. The chance of surviving Chernobyl unprotected at the time of the event was around 0%.
I hope lots of people are taking notes right now on how to make sure this never happens again.
Trumps genius gut feelings producing a shitshow.
Cuomo and deBlasio in pressers say they are well supplied. Sounds questionable.
Baloney
How are we still talking about PPE shortages this far in? We, as a nation, failed these people. You forever have my love and support.
No way it's 90%. Really. You would have to lock it down.
fake?
Arrest ANYONE ON THE STREETS WEARING A N95 or better mask! For they are taking them from healthcare teams that need them!!
The wealthiest country in the world can’t supply our hospitals
Cuomo said they have plenty now? How would she know what Chernobyl was like?
And Trump's administration is seizing gear and redistributing it. Speculation has been that third-party companies are reselling it.
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