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Health care workers falling ill amid lack of protections

by Associated Press
| March 30, 2020 2:27 PM

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Confronted with a lack of protective equipment, health care workers treating coronavirus patients are reusing masks that are supposed to be used once and then discarded and are even making their own — and more are getting infected.

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