John,

Last week, Trump finally used the Defense Production Act to order General Motors to produce ventilators for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

It’s a step in the right direction but, as one nurse recently put it, "Without personal protective equipment (PPE), we won’t need the ventilators, because none of us will be around to run them."

The Defense Production Act gives Trump the authority to direct U.S. manufacturers to mass produce N95 respirators and other critical protective equipment for health care workers. But so far, he has refused to do so.

We’re joining with National Nurses United to tell the White House that we cannot delay any further — invoke the Defense Production Act and get PPE to nurses NOW.

While some health facilities have begun receiving shipments of PPE, far too many are still going without the equipment they desperately need to protect nurses and their patients from COVID-19.

Nurses on front lines of this crisis are going to work every day wondering when they’ll contract the virus, when they’ll pass it to a patient, or when they’ll bring it home to their families.

We must make sure our government is doing everything in its power to dramatically expand production and distribution of the equipment needed to protect nurses, other health care workers, and patients.

Please demand that President Trump immediately exercise his full authority under the Defense Production Act to ramp up production and rush supplies to nurses on the front lines of COVID-19.

We must make our voices impossible to ignore. All our lives depend on it.

Women’s March Team