Tension, Fear Grip U.S. Health Workers With Supplies Running Low

Health-care workers and others essential to the Covid-19 fight say they’re increasingly frustrated that they’re being sent into a deadly battle without the protective gear they need for themselves and their patients.

Tensions are particularly high in New York, where the number of coronavirus deaths has passed 1,000. Seven members of District Council 37, representing emergency medics, nurses’ aides, respiratory therapists and others in the city’s hospitals, have died from the virus, according to the union. But the concern is nationwide: The country’s largest nurses’ union has filed more than 125 complaints with federal workplace safety regulators alleging dangerous working conditions in ...