
Nurses say masks could help “stave off a resurgence of the vicious COVID-19 virus that has ravaged this state.”
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Nurses say masks could help “stave off a resurgence of the vicious COVID-19 virus that has ravaged this state.”

President Trump “failed miserably” to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, she said in a Q&A with The Union Advocate.

“To workers who have contracted COVID, this is for you,” Minnesota Nurses Association President Mary Turner said.

Making matters worse, Trump has over the last three years steadily chipped away at the number of federal OSHA investigators, now at its lowest point in the agency’s history.

As unions pause to remember their fallen members, COVID-19 has given new urgency to their fight for worker safety.

“It’s about keeping yourself safe, keeping the workers safe and keeping the community safe,” UFCW Local 1189 President Jennifer Christensen said.

Racist resentment against Asian Pacific Americans is a recurring pattern in American history, and it’s rearing its ugly head during the COVID-19 pandemic.