It is difficult to put into words the level of frustration and despair that I have felt over the last few days watching the schizophrenic national response to this COVID-19 crisis and its detrimental effects on the work conditions of my colleagues. As an internal medicine physician working in Utah, it feels like it is the calm before the storm as emergency room and urgent care volumes are down as people try to socially distance to correct the spread of this virus. Other areas of the country are not so lucky.
“My heart breaks for frontline coworkers who are being given only one single-use protective mask and being told to use it for days to weeks at a time, a breach in infection protocol so egregious that just several weeks ago it would have been grounds for dismissal from the hospital."
Utah physician pleads for appropriate #PPE, new on in-House.
Sign the petition for mass production of #PPE under the #DPA here: https://www.change.org/p/donald-j-trump-use-the-defense-production-act-to-mass-produce-covid-19-tests-masks-for-first-responders?signed=
