The nurses demanded more personal protective equipment as more healthcare workers die after contracting COVID-19.
. “I think that right now, people think of us as heroes. But we’re feeling like martyrs, we’re feeling like we’re being left on the battlefield with nothing. And I think that we should be paying more attention to what nurses and doctors and other health care workers are going through right now.”
At the demonstration, a man was spotted holding a sign that read: “20 seconds won’t scrub ‘hero’ blood off your hands.”“Let us remember and honor the ultimate sacrifice these nurses paid,” Melody Jones, a member of the National Nurses United union, told newscasters present at the demonstration . “We commit ourselves to fight like hell for the living.
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