. >> narrator: it was the start of the corovirus pandemic in california, and nurs sandy oldfield werehort on masks and gowns and gles. >> it was hard. our morale was pretty low. we still weren getting the ppe on our floor, on our unit. it was tough. >> she didn't feel safe. i even had made a comment to her. i said, "just don't go to work." she was, like, "we have to. we've already, i mean, you don't just not show up, you know?" but she said everybody felt the same. i mean, they felt that they just were not being protected. she cared for a patient that was asymptomatic. he showed no signs of the virus or anything. and my sister, unfortunately, was exposed. she called me in the morning and said that she was positive. >> narrator: after nine other nurses in the same hospital came down with covid-19, the nursing staff started protesting. >> what do we want? ppe! >> we're all saying the same thing. give us our ppe. >> the hospital says safety is the ghest priority. >> we are seeing a l of our healthcare workers come down with this illness. >> narrator: inside the hospital, sandy oldfie get