A nursing manager at Mt Sinai Hospital in NYC just died from coronavirus. Nurses wearing trash bags

[CousinIT]

https://nypost.com/2020/03/25/worker-at-nyc-hospital-where-nurses-wear-trash-bags-as-protection-dies-from-coronavirus/

Assistant nursing manager at Mount Sinai West, Kious Kelly, died from coronavirus on Tuesday night.

The shortage of safety gear at one Manhattan hospital is so dire that desperate nurses have resorted to wearing trash bags — and some blame the situation for the coronavirus death of a beloved colleague.

A stunning photo shared on social media shows three nurses at Mount Sinai West posing in a hallway while clad in large, black plastic trash bags fashioned into makeshift protective garb.

One of them is even holding the open box of 20 Hefty “Strong” 33-gallon garbage bags they used to cloak themselves.

Kelly, 48, was admitted to Mount Sinai’s flagship hospital on the Upper East Side on March 17 and died Tuesday night, the workers said.

“Kious didn’t deserve this,” one nurse said. “The hospital should be held responsible. The hospital killed him.”

Another nurse described “issues with supplies for about a year now,” during which it got “to the point where we had to hide our own supplies and go to other units looking for stuff because even the supply room would have nothing most of the time.”

“But when we started getting COVID patients it became critical,” the nurse said.

[dalton99a]

1. USA! USA!

[BigmanPigman]

2. Supplies have been short for A YEAR! That's criminal!

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yep. Best healthcare in the world.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Bet there were bonuses at the upper end of some convoluted financial trail, though.

[BigmanPigman]

7. That goes without saying.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. We have to fix this, somehow. The parasites are killing us.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. His poor family!

[OhNo-Really]

5. Audit the hospitals. Something is amiss

[lpbk2713]

8. And fuggen Trump lives on.

To hell with Trump, McConnell and all the rest of the Greedy Old Perverts.

[tblue37]

10. So young! nt

[PA Democrat]

11. "The richest country in the world" and our healthcare workers are forced to wear TRASH BAGS

for protection????????

Our country may have a lot of money (concentrated in the hands of the top 1%) but were are pathetically lacking in morality.

[Corgigal]

12. Gov Cuomo

Needs to have blown up pictures of our passed medical staff behind him.

[grantcart]

13. Heartbreaking

[Demovictory9]

14. a youngish guy. RIP

[smirkymonkey]

15. So sad!

Both the death of Mr. Kelly and the situation. Makes me angry.

What the hell is wrong with this country? Aren't we the wealthiest nation in the world?

RIP, Mr. Kelly.

[arthritisR_US]

20. Your country is the wealthiest, only that

wealth is situated in only 1% of your population and they lobby the swamp to keep their wealth coming at the expense of the masses. Is this the American Exceptionalism the world has been hearing about ad nauseam for the last 70+ years?

[smirkymonkey]

22. Can't argue with you there.

They keep grabbing more of it for themselves and leaving the rest of us to suffer under their hateful policies.

[arthritisR_US]

23. That's what I've been seeing for the last

five decades and I’m so disgusted. Then your country brings this despot into power and he places only the most corrupt in powers of office and they will rape your country just as pukin and other dictators have and do. American exceptionalism, the true repig way.

[PatrickforO]

16. That's fucked up.

In Trump we have the worst possible dipshit in charge.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. What a travesty!

Heart breaking!

Those hospital employees are so brave!

[Crunchy Frog]

18. I'm scared that NYC is going to end up making Lombardy look like childsplay.

I hope his family is at least able to sue the hospital for wrongful death.

[OhioChick]

19. .....

[King_Klonopin]

21. We got people (nurses) dressed in plastic bags

to wrap your trash in.
Some kind of fashion.
Shedoobee
I been shattered.

-- M. Jagger

[DEbluedude]

26. You must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, TOUGH!

[uponit7771]

24. Shit

[demmiblue]

25. My god, what have we become?

[NoMoreRepugs]

27. What have we become, or maybe what has been exposed

now that there is stress on our entire way of life?

Just asking.