In a lawsuit filed Monday by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), the organization claims that the state's hospitals are turning into a 'petri dish' as sick nurses are told to return back to work too soon, as they continue to fight on the front lines of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
In a lawsuit filed Monday by the New York State Nurses Association , the organization claims that the state's hospitals are turning into a"petri dish" as sick nurses are told to return back to work too soon, as they continue to fight on the front lines of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
In Monday's lawsuit, the nurse's union, which has 42,000 members, claimed that the state's Department of Health and the two hospitals failed to provide adequate safety equipment, such as N95 face masks and fluid-resistant hospital gowns.
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