The number of health care workers in the region who have contracted the virus is likely significantly higher. Three Detroit-area health care systems failed to provide data, and one of them operates hospitals that have been especially hard-hit by the outbreak and where staff have publicly denounced their working conditions. Another has had a surgeon die and hundreds of nurses call in sick.
“I know that nurses have gotten really sick from this. I know that nurses have passed away from it, so for us, every time we hear a name, it’s really concerning to us,” Homick said. “We’re worried about our staff.” Brown said Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer “is doing everything she can” to get medical staff more personal protective equipment, “but a national shortage needs a national solution.”
Like others across the country, health systems in the Detroit area have been working to find more protective equipment and staff to deal with the swell of COVID-19 patients. Hospitals have received mask donations from the community, and are bringing in nurses from other hospitals or outside agencies to try to fill the gaps.
Beaumont Health, another large health system serving the region, announced earlier this week that 1,500 of its employees were off work with symptoms of COVID-19 — 500 of which are nurses. Beaumont did not indicate how many employees have received positive test results.
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