Health care professionals working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic complain that they do not have the needed equipment, putting their own health in jeopardy
Health care professionals in 10 states who are working on the front lines in the COVID-19 fight are filing complaints with the Occupation Safety and Health Administration, claiming their hospitals aren't protecting them from exposure during the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to aOSHA representatives have been inundated with reports from hospitals citing a severe lack of personal protective equipment, or PPE, needed to keep health care professionals from being exposed to the novel...
Sherri Dayton, a nurse employed at Backus Hospital in Connecticut, complained the hospital is not providing the needed N95 surgical masks for those working in close contact with unmasked patients suffering from the novel coronavirus. Earlier this month, OSHA officials launched an investigation into the deaths health care workers at 34 separate facilities in the U.S., many that originated as complaints on social media sites, with most citing a lack of PPE while treating COVID-19 patients, or being told to work while they are themselves sick.
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