sarah dowd is part of the new york state nurses association . welcome to democracy now!s we speak to you, you're jusut outside harlem hospital where the protest is about to begin. why did you helped organize this protest? becauseped start this we have some very concrete needs that are not being met right now as far as taking care of patients and ensuring that workers are not impacted. we have a lot of issues with getting the gear we need to protect ourselves. we also have issues with getting the equipment we need to properly take care of the patients. we're out here today, not just to draw awareness to that, but we have some very concrete demands that we would like to have met by the public health care system here. amy: saw a contingent of teachers with the movement of rank-and-file educators from the united federation of teachers is coming to show theirir support n cars? >> that is correct. we are very happy for the show support. there are a grassroots movement within the united federation of teachers. they reached out to us, how can we support you? they are also going

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a shortage of protective gear like masks and downs is only adding to the strain for nurses like sarah dowd who came out to demonstrate being kind of thrust into the situation without everything we need without the resources we need to do the best job possible and. that has a psychological affect the feeling of being helpless scenes of refrigerated trucks as makeshift morgues and funeral homes struggle to contain the enormous loss of life have been traumatic even for notoriously tough new yorkers the city and state officials have lashed out at the federal government for not doing more to coordinate the response on bidding on a machine that illinois is bidding on california is betting on in florida is big and we were bidding up each other while social distancing appears to be slowing the spread of coke at 19 nearly a month of school and business closures are taking a toll leaving thousands of small business owners struggling to survive like jeff george who owns a martial arts studio the biggest thing is continuing to be able to pay the rent and pay the utilities and pay the employees right w