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Wednesday was National Nurses Day and this year, in particular, all nurses are our heroes. We know they are an indispensable part of our health care system and they are working in conditions that are far less protective than what they deserve. In particular, shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) persist in many areas of the country. Worse yet, many nurses have to deal with not only the health risks of contracting COVID, but also with the risk of being fired for bringing their own PPE to work, whistleblowing about supply shortages on social media, and helping out overworked peers in COVID hotspots.
That’s why we want to highlight the brave actions of one nurse who spoke truth to President Trump. During a White House event, Sophia Adams respectfully refused to stay on the President’s message that everything is going great in the fight against the pandemic. She heads the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and explained her struggles in New Orleans with the inadequate supply of PPE, saying that she wore the same N95 mask for “a few weeks” and that her health system’s supply was “sporadic.” In doing so, she spoke up for tens of thousands of nurses all over the country. As did the members of National Nurses United, who protested across the street from the White House yesterday, on behalf of their fallen colleagues. They shouldn’t have to work without basic protective equipment. But they do. They are true heroes.
The International Energy Agency stated in its annual World Energy Investment report released yesterday that the unparalleled decline in worldwide energy investment had been “staggering in both its scale and swiftness.” Investment in global energy is expected fall by $400bn this year, the biggest drop in the industry’s history As CNBC reported, the IEA “warned […]
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In April, Vice President Mike Pence predicted that the COVID-19 pandemic would be over by Memorial Day weekend. We’ve just passed that milestone and in the United States nearly 100,000 Americans have lost their lives to the virus. Despite warnings from the World Health Organization that countries with declining infection rates could still face an […]
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While Michigan is facing record flooding and a pandemic, protestors began giving out free haircuts outside the state’s Capitol in defiance of the governor’s stay-at-home order. In the United States, data suggests that protestors around the country have played a part in spreading COVID-19 through their risky behavior. Incidentally, as Emily Holden reported for the […]
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