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City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said Thursday it is “shameful and shocking” that a shortage of safety gear at one Manhattan hospital forced desperate nurses to resort to wearing trash bags as protective gear as they treat coronavirus victims.   “It is insane than the wealthiest country in the world and in the wealthiest city in United States that our heroes that are in the front line, our health care workers, do not have all the personal protective equipment to protect themselves,” Johnson told CNN while referring to The Post’s front-page story about the stunning development at Mount Sinai West, near Columbus Circle.  “And to see those photos of nurses and doctors wearing garbage bags is shameful and shocking.” The stunning photo shared on social media shows three nurses at Mount Sinai West posing in a hallway while clad in large, black plastic trash bags fashioned into makeshift protective garb. One of them is even holding the open box of 20 Hefty “Strong” 33-gallon garbage bags they used to cloak themselves. Some have blamed the situation for the coronavirus death of a beloved colleague. “We need to protect these folks who are putting their lives on the line every single day away from their families, and we should have never been in this situation to begin with,” Johnson said. “We need a federal coordinated response to help us with the lack of personal protective equipment,” he added. “We need millions of N95 masks, millions of surgical masks, gloves and gowns and face shields and ventilators.”



- New York Post