At one hospital in North Dakota, nurses are being forced to test patients for the deadly coronavirus with only a surgical mask. But while several North Dakota nurses told The Daily Beast they are “terrified” of the virus, they insist they’ll still show up for their increasingly dangerous jobs because “that’s what nurses do.”“Nurses don’t feel safe. “This applies only to COVID-positive health-care workers who do not have symptoms and they are allowed only to work COVID units around patients who already have the virus,” North Dakota Gov. The North Dakota Department of Health on Thursday reported 1,801 new cases in the state, bringing the total to 59,173, with a positivity rate of about 18.7 percent. The dead include David Andahl, a North Dakota Republican state legislative candidate who passed away in October—but still ended up winning his seat.
