Minnesota nurses ask for more personal protective equipment

10%-15% of those infected are healthcare workers and nurses say more PPE would help flatten the curve.

New on daybreak new for you on daybreak... as businesses in minnesota and iowa continue to reopen ?

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Kimt news 3's madelyne watkins joins us live this morning to explain what one minnesota organization is trying to do to prepare.

Madelyne./// brooke and tyler.

The president of the minnesota nurses association sent this letter to governor walz asking for more personal protective equipment for healthcare workers across the state... including right here at mayo clinic.

Mary turner tells me just because businesses are reopening and it seems like we're getting back to normal... the coronavirus isn't going to disappear.

She says at the beginning of the pandemic, medical professionals were most worried about senior citizens and those with underlying health conditions.

But in the past week with protests and more people getting out in the public ?

"* turner is seeing moe 20 and 30 year olds infected.

She is making a plea to governor walz for more ppe to protect nurses if another surge were to happen.

Turner tells me the reality healthcare workers ?

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"* are facing right "when i start to see people that i worked with for a whole decade, see them one weekend then they're not there the next weekend and it's because they weren't protected... the gloves are off.

The gloves are off."

Governor walz extended the peacetime emergency for 30 days to include making more ppe available.

But turner tells me they're already rationing equipment so she's worried it won't be enough if another surge does happen... especially with flu season in a few months.

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Madelyne watkins kimt thank you madelyne.

Turner says at least 10 to 15 percent of covid?

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