CDC Says More Than 300 Health Care Workers Have Died of Coronavirus, But Number Is Likely Higher

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According to the CDC, information that would identify COVID-19 patients as health care workers was only available for 21.5 percent of cases

sent from National Nurses United to nurses in the U.S., 87 percent of respondents reported having to reuse single-use PPE with coronavirus patients. Over a quarter also reported having to reuse “so-called 'decontaminated' ” respirators.

The survey, which included responses from nearly 23,000 nurses across all 50 states, also found that 27 percent of nurses who reported having been exposed to COVID-19 had to work within 2 weeks of their exposure. “The richest country in the world will call nurses heroes without even bothering to invest in mass producing N95 respirators and other equipment to keep nurses alive,” NNU Executive Director Bonnie Castillo said in a press release. “Nurses signed up to care for their patients. They did not sign up to die needlessly on the front lines of a pandemic. Our message to employers and the Trump administration is: Platitudes are empty without protections. For our sake, for the public’s sake—give us PPE.

As of June 1, at least 104,300 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19, and nearly 1.8 million people have tested positive for the virus, according to

 

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