Opinion: Health-care workers deserve hazard pay during covid-19 pandemic
anyway, despite acknowledging that they “might not perform to the requirements for which they were certified.”Still, many of America’s health-care professionals are at the front lines of this pandemic with far less effective PPE than an expired respirator. Some are wearing the once-ubiquitous surgical mask, which doesn’t filter outBut many health-care institutions are already running short on these, too.
, we are armoring our only hope with little more than a false sense of security. If we cannot properly equip them, should we not at least properly pay them?
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