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  • Where the masks going? Are they going out the back door?

  • I have been wearing this surgical mask for two days.

  • I'm on the third day of using my N95.

  • None of the nurses are wearing masks.

  • Not even surgical masks.

  • They've been delivering for years 10,000 to 20,000 masks.

  • OK How do we go from 10,000 masks to 300,000.

  • I'll tell you how as a health care worker

  • because we have a pandemic.

  • The richest country in the Western world in 2020

  • the strongest economy in the world.

  • This is actual real life in the hospital now.

  • They give you a paper bag. Paper

  • bag where I store a face shield and an N95 mask.

  • And I have to bring it to and from work everyday.

  • Do you think that that sounds safe? Clean it between patients.

  • Use it until it breaks. Unacceptable. Especially

  • because I am 16 weeks pregnant.

  • We're delivering millions and millions

  • of different products and all we do is hear that,

  • can you get some more? To say that we are not

  • using our masks correctly or that we're hoarding them.

  • So I don't think it's hoarding.

  • I think it's maybe worse than hoarding.

  • That's completely, completely preposterous.

  • Well, we're seeing hospital workers do is actually

  • going out and finding protective equipment

  • in whatever possible way we can.

  • When you are intubating a patient, particles

  • from the patient are released into the air

  • and it becomes increasingly dangerous for anybody that's

  • in the immediate vicinity.

  • Without this PPE we won't need the ventilators

  • because none of us will be around to run them.

  • We're at risk.

  • The patients are at risk.

  • Our families who we are going home

  • to, they're at risk. The grocery store clerks that I go

  • buy my groceries from.

  • They're at risk.

  • We need proper PPE and we need supplies of it today.

  • Not next week, not in two weeks nine a month.

  • We need it now.

  • I'm not going to give up no matter what.

  • I still love my job.

  • And I'm going to do everything in my power to save lives.

  • President Trump at some point, you're

  • going to face the end of your own life.

  • Think about how you should be treating

  • the people who are going to be taking care of you.

  • We shouldn't be losing talented health care workers

  • because of the lack of protective equipment

  • when people are just showing up, trying to do their job.

  • It's wrong.

  • We should all be ashamed

  • that it's happening.

Where the masks going? Are they going out the back door?

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