Ten nurses have been suspended at Providence St. John's in Santa Monica after refusing to care for COVID-19 patients without having N95 face masks.
, which handles licensing, for patient abandonment if they refused.
Earlier in the outbreak, the CDC had been recommended that all providers wear N95 masks, but they loosened the guidelines recently, in part to stretch limited supplies nationally.Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions.On Wednesday, the Providence health system announced they would begin disinfecting N95 masks so they could be reused to help ease a shortfall.
Cline, the suspended nurse, said that on Friday, he refused to enter a patient room without an N95. The patient was suspected of having COVID-19, he said, and multiple doctors, who did get masks, told him not to enter.
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