In this Thursday, March 26, 2020 photo provided by Benny Mathew, Benny Mathew is shown at his home in the Bronx borough of New York. Matthew, a nurse at Montefiore Medical Center, was diagnosed earlier in the day with COVID-19 and is now worried he may infect his wife and two daughters. (Benny Mathew via AP)
March 26, 2020
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On NYC's front lines, health workers worry they will be next
NEW YORK (AP) — A nurse died from coronavirus after working nonstop for weeks at a hospital where staffers frustrated with dwindling supplies posed in gowns made of trash bags. An emergency room doctor fears he had the virus long before getting too sick to work. Another nurse worries the lone mask she’s issued each day won’t be enough to protect her from an unending tide of hacking, feverish patients.