This pandemic have killed many people including the health workers themselves. Health workers are placed on a very high risk of contagion. In Washington, Thursday, the National Nurses United, nation’s largest Nurses union gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House for a rally, demanding for more front line protection for nurses. 

They placed a pair of shoe representing the lives of the nurses who was lost due to insufficient PPE supplies. The rally organizers placed a total of 88 white shoes. The nurses will then read out loud the names of their colleagues who have died during the pandemic.

“You talk about how essential, how needed, how grateful you are, and yet you throw us to the wolves. You throw us out onto a battlefield without armor and the more we complain we don’t see anything being done,” said Jean Ross, president of National Nurses United, in an interview with CNN.

Their website stated that their protest was meant for a demand of more protection for the frontline health care workers. 

“We are not getting what we need. We have not seen the worst of it yet. We are so afraid,” she added.