Nurses in Santa Monica, California, refused to care for Covid-19 patients after they say hospital didn’t provide essential protective gear
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Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the coronavirus home to his wife and their two-year-old daughter. He’d stop at a hotel after work just to take a shower. He’d wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant.
But at Providence Saint John’s health center in Santa Monica, California, Gulick and his colleagues worried that caring for infected patients without an N95 respirator mask was risky. The N95 mask filters out 95% of all airborne particles, including ones too tiny to be blocked by regular masks. But hospital administrators said they weren’t necessary and didn’t provide them, he said.
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