Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The New York police sergeants union described city health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot as a "b----" Wednesday in response to revelations that she told an NYPD official she didn’t give “two rats’ a--es” about cops getting safety masks.“Truth is this b---- has blood on her hands…
The New York state nurses union filed lawsuits against the state and two hospitals Monday over what it says are unsafe working conditions and a lack of protective equipment.The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) sued the New York Department of Health and two hospitals, Montefiore Medical Center and Westchester Medical Center, claiming they put nurses’s health…
Nurses hold signs during a demonstration for increased personal protection equipment outside Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, on Thursday, April 2, 2020.David Dee Delgado | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe New York State Nurses Association filed suit Monday against the state and two hospital systems, alleging dangerous conditions that put health workers…
A California hospital suspended a group of nurses after they refused to enter rooms where patients were being treated for COVID-19 without first getting N95 respiratory masks, the National Nurses Union told The Associated Press. The union said that 10 nurses working at the Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., are not allowed to…
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…