Health care workers held a vigil across from the White House Thursday night, lighting 481 candles, saying each represented the life of a nurse lost to COVID.
Healthcare centers have reported a dramatic increase in pediatric patients as the number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the U.S.
"When our workplaces aren't safe, nurses leaves, nurses get sick. And as these candles demonstrate, nurses die," Julia Truelove, an intensive care unit registered nurse in Washington, D.C., told ABC News."We're here to say there is no nursing shortage, there is a shortage of workers willing to work under these nightmarish conditions."
"We're advocating for two main actions the federal government needs to take to help us be safe at work," Truelove said.."The first is for OSHA to pass a permanent COVID standard which means that going forward, our employers are held accountable for keeping us safe with optimum precautions at work. The second is for the CDC to base their guidance on the best science and the best public health, not just what is best for business," she said.
"The CDC is now telling us that if we're COVID positive we can come back to work no problem. That's unsafe for nurses, it's unsafe for our patients, it's unsafe for our coworkers," she said.Activists hold images of nurses who died during the COVID-19 pandemic during a vigil in Lafayette Park, Jan. 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
Nurses throughout the U.S., arguing they are overworked, understaffed, and negotiating for baseline safety protocols, have organized through
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