This nurse began the pandemic working in the ICU, but by June was made the hard decision to switch specialties to surgical services. She did not feel protected at work and feared catching covid19 and passing it to family members.
In this article, Kara-Marie Hall, RN discusses Trump, the HEROES Act, the ACA, and how the federal government failed us:
The pandemic didn’t have to play out this way. I believe the fault lies mainly with the federal government’s mismanagement of the pandemic. From the start, hospitals were left with a limited supply of PPE to protect health-care workers. Further, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided confusing and conflicting guidance to health-care workers on how to protect ourselves from this novel virus.
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