“We’re here because our colleagues are dying,” Erica Jones, a nurse at Washington Hospital Center in D.C., told NBC News. Jones stood silently Tuesday as the names of 50 nurses who died from COVID-19 were read aloud in the shadow of the White House.
They're calling on President Donald Trump to utilize the Defense Production Act to ensure healthcare workers have necessary supplies, including critical N95 masks and respirators, face shields and gloves. “We need these things to do our jobs,” Jones said. The NNU is also pushing for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to establish standards for health care workers during outbreaks of infectious disease.
Sent this story to Donald Trump's Twitter page-doubt if he read it, but maybe his handlers in the White House saw it-he and those people need a little reality check....
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Way to go!! Our beautiful country at work. Stand up for what you believe and let your voices be heard. I commend their courage and hope they can get what they are asking for. I hope our officials can hear our voices and reopen our nation. Proud day.
Freedom of speech is wonderful! I stand with them but should it not be their employers that provide proper safety equipment? If they can not currently maybe the govt could give loans or provide it to them.
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Nobody made you be a nurse..quit .go work at walmart..quit crying you make like 30 bucks an hour.
Why didn’t they just call FEMA?
Ah go to your governor not the white house
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