Mary Turner, ICU Nurse, in a roundtable with President-elect Biden: "Our hospitals are overflowing with COVID patients, and we aren't prepared. We know the right way to battle this virus, but our employers and our government are not supporting us."
Mary Turner, ICU Nurse, in roundtable w Biden talks about nurses who have COVID because "the hospital or their government hasn't protected them."
She adds: "Throughout this pandemic we've had to reuse N95s so many times ... sometimes a mask literally falls off our faces."
She adds: "Throughout this pandemic we've had to reuse N95s so many times ... sometimes a mask literally falls off our faces."
From President-elect Biden's roundtable with front line workers:
Mary Turner, ICU Nurse: "I have not been tested yet and I have been on the front lines in the ICU since February."
Biden: "You're kidding me."
Turner: "No."
Mary Turner, ICU Nurse: "I have not been tested yet and I have been on the front lines in the ICU since February."
Biden: "You're kidding me."
Turner: "No."
After hearing from ICU nurse Mary Turner, President-elect Biden remembers the attentiveness of nurses in the ICU when he was there with his son Beau.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you," he tells nurses.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you," he tells nurses.
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