With Masks Dwindling, A Hospital's COVID-19 Crisis Team Searches For A Way Out

BOSTON, MA - MARCH 25: Nurse Kate Hill works in a personal protective equipment distribution area at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA on March 25, 2020. Staff were distributing personal protective equipment to staff including face shields, eyewear, and procedure and surgical masks. This was the first day that everyone received a mask as they entered the building. A massive crisis of confidence is unfolding among nurses and clinicians in hospitals around the nation. As more and more COVID-19 patients arrive in emergency rooms, health care workers are terrified. A critical lack of personal protective equipment masks, N95 respirator masks, and powered air purifying respirators makes the jobs of medical care professionals jobs not just difficult, but dangerous. (Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)