Management tells front-line nurses at the VA hospital in Durham, NC:
"Effective immediately, staff will be issued (1) surgical mask per week."
Nationally, 9 VA staff are already dead of #COVID19 and 1,281 have tested ++
"Veterans Affairs Hospitals Will Give Masks Only to Some Employees, Memos Show
Department is struggling to get more N95 respirators; ‘The fear is palpable’"
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It has been neglected by @realDonaldTrump and entered this crisis understaffed, short 44,000 frontline heath workers revealnews.org/article/unders…