U.S. nurses who can't get tested fear they are spreading COVID-19


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  • Thursday, 09 Apr 2020

FILE PHOTO: A person holds up their ID as a worker in protective clothing gathers information from people that want to get tested, at Glen Island Park, as New York State's first drive through COVID-19 mobile testing center opens, in New Rochelle, U.S., March 13, 2020. Mark Vergari/The Journal News/USA Today via REUTERS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In New York City, an intensive care nurse treated patients for three days after she started displaying symptoms of COVID-19 - but couldn't get a test from her hospital. In Georgia, a nurse was denied a test after treating an infected patient who died.

In Michigan, one of the few hospital systems conducting widespread staff testing found that more than 700 workers were infected with the coronavirus - more than a quarter of those tested.

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