'If we are continuously working without the proper gear that we need, we will all die. So who will take care of the patients?' asked one worker at a Brooklyn hospital. 'Protect us. That's all we are asking.'
There are no official statistics on how many health care workers have gotten sick or died from COVID-19 across the region. While some city agencies have released numbers for their employees, the city's hospital system has not. The state health department, which oversees private hospitals like Kingsbrook, said it is not tracking deaths by occupation. The city reports 26 employee deaths at its public hospitals.
Several other private hospitals did not immediately respond to requests for numbers of employees who have died from COVID-19. But a spokesman for Northwell Health, which runs 23 hospitals across the region, said that organization has had five employees die from COVID-19 — the same number workers are reporting at Kingsbrook hospital alone.have died from COVID-19 in recent weeks.
"The politicians keep on trying to say we're okay," Keefe said."We're speaking for everyone to say, 'It's not better, it's still not okay.'"
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