CoronaVirus

cv129 · 03-26-2020, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by bunk

I've been reading stories and people from work saying that folks in th healthcare industry are being infected. May or may not be related to the industry, but I hope they take extra precautions. Hiw is your wife doing?

Healthcare workers, even those in the front lines, don’t have adequate protection. Some nurses (my wife’s cousin included) in departments other than those highly dangerous area are told not to wear masks, and some even say wearing masks will be fired immediately for insubordination (even if mask is nurse’s own, not hospital stock).

Wifey is a radiologist specializing in breast imaging, so she doesn’t come into constant contacts with others unlike ER docs. We are lucky on that.

bunk · 03-26-2020, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by cv129

Healthcare workers, even those in the front lines, don’t have adequate protection. Some nurses (my wife’s cousin included) in departments other than those highly dangerous area are told not to wear masks, and some even say wearing masks will be fired immediately for insubordination (even if mask is nurse’s own, not hospital stock).

Wifey is a radiologist specializing in breast imaging, so she doesn’t come into constant contacts with others unlike ER docs. We are lucky on that.

I work in a cardiology clinic and some of our Drs also work in the hospital. One of the receptionists at one of our remote sites said they've been asking for masks (we have them at our main office but not at the remotes). She said theyll walk out of they dont get them. I understand keeping a sense of calm... but comon, everyone knows what's going on and they need to protect the workers

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