You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Bronx Hospital Investigating Nurse Who Shared Video of Medical Staff Speaking Out About Lack of PPE

HeadlineMay 11, 2020

The Intercept is reporting that Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx is investigating a nurse for sharing footage with the website that shows medical workers speaking out about the lack of protective equipment and critical supplies they were facing. A nurse in the video blamed the passing of a fellow nurse from COVID-19 on the government’s failure to provide them with proper resources. The nurse under investigation, Lillian Udell, is part of a group known as the “radical nurse squad,” who are organizing nurses at their respective hospitals amid the pandemic.

In neighboring New Jersey, where half of the over 9,000 COVID-19 deaths have been linked to nursing homes, a Veterans Home in Paramus is now reporting 72 fatalities, and the number is expected to keep rising.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top