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A Nurse’s Hospital Wouldn’t Let Her Wear an N95 Mask. She Hasn’t Been Back to Work in Weeks. As the coronavirus spreads, hitting health care providers especially hard, doctors and nurses ...
Ten Covid-19 unit nurses are heading back to work after being placed on paid administrative leave for refusing to enter coronavirus patient rooms without an N95 mask.
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of medical-grade N95 face masks are pouring out of American factories and heading into storage — yet doctors and nurses say there still aren't ...
Mike Bowen’s warehouse outside Fort Worth, Texas, was piled high with cases of medical-grade N95 face masks. His company, Prestige Ameritech, can churn out 1 million masks every four days, but ...
Vancouver’s PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to ...
ANSWER: N95 masks are the standard for personal protective equipment for most health care providers in the hospital. Ideally, health care workers would have enough N95 masks to use them with every ...
Early in the pandemic, shortages of N95 respirators and other medical gear prompted panic across the world. A year later, the masks still aren't widely available to U.S. consumers.
Staff were urged to stay indoors during the convoy and to "refrain from wearing scrubs and/or your ID badge outside of the hospital during the demonstration." ...
Hospitals Warned About Omicron. But They Haven’t Adopted Self-Protection. Oregon hospitals, including OHSU, have not required all frontline staff to wear N95 masks.
Providence Health Care has changed the way it manages its face mask supply, as coronavirus concerns have led people to seek N95 protective masks. The organization, which operates medical ...
Two East Vancouver residents have distributed thousands of high-quality N95 masks in the last two months, in direct response to what they say are “neglectful” public health measures concerning ...