[1]National Nurses United

This is dire.

Due to a national shortage of face masks, the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) downgraded its guidelines and is now recommending that nurses use
bandanas and scarves as makeshift masks when caring for COVID-19 patients
— despite proof that they provide almost no effective protection against
the virus.

These recommendations are putting our nurses, frontline health care
workers, and patients at extreme risk. We need your help to expose the
truth about what is going on in hospitals and clinics across the country
and pressure the CDC to adjust these guidelines to protect frontline
nurses. 

We’re asking everyone (that means you) to post a selfie wearing a bandana
or something like it to expose the lack of personal protective equipment
and call on the CDC to protect frontline nurses immediately.

→ Step-by-step Instructions: ←
 1. Find a bandana in your house, or something else like it such as a
scarf or dish towel 
 2. Download & print [ [link removed] ]this sign, or make your own, that says “This is
not protection. Sign the petition at protectnurses.org” 
 3. Take a selfie wearing your bandana with your sign
 4. Post it on Facebook and Twitter and tag @CDCgov and your congress
members with this text (or something similar):
.@CDCgov @NNUBonnie @StefRoberson this is NOT personal protective
equipment. Bandanas and scarves provide almost NO effective protection
when #COVID19 patients are highly contagious.

#ProtectNurses and save lives: strengthen PPE guidelines for frontline
health care workers NOW!

If you need an example, check out ours here:

Hospitals are asking nurses to battle this highly infectious virus with
little to no protection. This is unacceptable. 

At a White House briefing, President Trump said millions of masks were in
production and that the federal government was making efforts to address
the shortages – but he did not provide any details as to when or how many
masks would be made available. 

At a moment when we are asking nurses and other health care workers to
step up and protect people, we must be able to protect them as well. 

All of our lives are at stake. If nurses get sick, they can’t take care of
patients. And if they can’t see patients, this pandemic will spiral
further out of control. 

The time is NOW to take all precautions to protect nurses and health care
workers on the frontlines. 

Thank you for helping expose this crisis and for standing in solidarity
with nurses.

National Nurses United



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