Nurse Jackie Vargas puts on her N95 mask using a plastic food container while getting ready to assist a COVID-19 patient at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, Calif., Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Vargas wears her glasses instead of contacts so she doesn't have to touch her eyes. She swaps her sneakers out for glittery black clogs so she doesn't have to handle shoelaces. She seals her N95 mask in a Tupperware-like container between patients so it's stored away from germs in the …
August 17, 2020
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August 17, 2020 12:37 p.m.
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