A California hospital suspended ten nurses because they refused to treat coronavirus patients without the greater protection of N95 masks.The nurses at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica said they requested the N95 masks, which can filter out 95 per cent of all airborne particles, including ones too tiny to be blocked by regular…
After long shifts treating covid-19 patients in New York hospitals, emergency room doctor Calvin D. Sun goes home and works for another 45 minutes. He cleans. He peels off his shoes, scrubs his jacket and places his protective suit outdoors to bake in the sun. Finally, he takes a shower, hot and scouring, to eliminate…
Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the coronavirus home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He’d stop at a hotel after work just to take a shower. He’d wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant. They did a tremendous amount of handwashing. But at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California,…
Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the coronavirus home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He'd stop at a hotel after work just to take a shower. He'd wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant. They did a tremendous amount of handwashing. But at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California,…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Several Southern California nurses were suspended after they refused to enter coronavirus patient's rooms without N95 respirator masks, the National Nurses Union said this week.Mike Gulick, who is one of the suspended nurses, told the Associated Press he’s been extremely careful…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…