Dear MoveOn member,
My name is Donna. I’m a nurse in Alaska. Nurses and other health care professionals are on the front lines of fighting the COVID-19 outbreak and caring for our patients, but we're running out of personal protective equipment (PPE) in states across the nation.
We don’t have the right kind of N95 respirator masks to keep us and you safe. We don’t have enough ventilators to keep the very sickest patients alive. We don’t have the ear or the attention of the president, who make promises and then walks away and does nothing.
This is scary. Our job is to treat and care for people, and we will not leave our patients behind. If we run out of equipment, health care providers and the patients we care for will die.
Let's be clear: If we get sick and if people die, it’s because policies that start all the way at the top have failed us. We should have been producing the needed respirators, masks, and ventilators long before this. The Trump administration should have taken the outbreak seriously when it started three months ago.
And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keep lowering the guidelines for health care workers to be safe; the CDC just said that we can use bandanas as masks. The CDC is putting my life and the lives of other nurses at risk by telling us to use scarves rather than producing enough masks that will keep us safe. And it’s not just respirators, masks, and ventilators we’re running low on. Hospitals are reporting shortages of gowns, gloves, and other PPE that we need to keep ourselves safe as we care for the sick.
Add your name to demand proper protection and resources for health care workers.
Here's what we need right now:
Trump has said he’ll use the Defense Production Act to make masks and tests, after weeks of us pressuring him, but he has not said he’ll use it to ensure there are enough ventilators to keep patients from dying. And he’s still not releasing the stockpile of PPE that he has, which could fill the gap until enough N95 masks are made.
Help us by telling the administration that we need this now.
Thank you.
–Donna Phillips and American Federation of Teachers
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