As the COVID-19 pandemic has stretched on, the American health care system has depended on the tireless efforts of nurses to care for the ill,...
. But as she told Senior TIME Correspondent Alice Park in a TIME100 Talks discussion, the U.S. is still coming up short on essential items like N95 face masks, leaving nurses unable to protect themselves, the public or their patients. To make up for these shortfalls, Castillo feels that the U.S. must enact the Defense Production Act, whichthe federal government has not employed aggressively enough to provide enough masks for health care workers.
Castillo says that nurses have been left to fend for themselves to get through the pandemic. She notes that nurses have had to bring their own personal protective equipment to work, and even rely on friends to borrow N95 asks. In turn, unions have also had to fight for nurses, to make sure that they get the personal protective equipment that they need. However, it hasn’t been enough to protect some nurses; 11 members of National Nurses United alone have died.
In Castillo’s opinion, Americans have suffered due to a lack of leadership in the fight against COVID-19. To begin to turn the country’s trajectory, she says, the United States must finally enact a coordinated national response.
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