A 37-year-old doctor and Texas native is running to replace a pro-Trump conservative in the House of Representatives. He is one of several doctors who are running for Congress and seeking to protect Obamacare.
WASHINGTON — Wednesday was National Nurses Day, which is why that afternoon President Trump found himself surrounded by men and women who have been on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. But Sophia Thomas, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, was interested in using the moment to highlight a need her members were facing. Personal protective equipment of the kind needed to keep hospital employees safe was “sporadic,” she told the president.
It is National Nurses Day & I'm furious that @realDonaldTrump insulted a nurse practitioner b/c he had to face the truth. Sophia Thomas is right, we don't have enough #PPE & are all reusing our N95s. We can adapt, but don't kid yourself, #GetUsPPE is real. #tupperware #TX10 pic.twitter.com/UyFwNIwILlLater that same evening, a young Texas doctor named Pritesh Gandhi posted a video that served as a vivid rejoinder to Trump.
And so Gandhi and his colleagues have had to cycle through a supply of three masks each. While one is in use, the other two sit stretched across their respective plastic containers. After two to three days, viral particles those masks may have accumulated while in use would have diminished, although some studies do demonstrate detectable levels as long as a week after a mask is used.
The coronavirus has given medical candidates like Gandhi a new rationale, not to mention a new visibility. In the last several months, doctors and nurses have been praised as “heroes,” celebrated as frontline soldiers in a war. And just like previous veterans, they are now seeking to bring what they have learned to Washington.
“The message is the same, and the goal is the same,” Goldstein told Yahoo News. “We as a country are recognizing the importance of health care.” Not all the doctors running for Congress are necessarily Democrats. In fact, up the road from Austin, in the state’s northern panhandle, former White House physician Ronny Jackson is running in the Republican primary for the 13th Congressional District .
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