Many sports leagues have struck contracts with private labs to ensure their athletes can get regularly tested for the virus — an expense most hospitals cannot afford. The National Football League issued 43,148 tests to 7,856 players, coaches and employees between Nov. 8-14 alone. Meanwhile, a recent survey from National Nurses United showed about two-thirds of its more than 15,000 members had never been tested for COVID-19. Many nurses have expressed frustration at this testing discrepancy or held protests over their lack of testing, reports the Post.
Jane Sandoval, a 58-year-old emergency room nurse at San Francisco-based California Pacific Medical Center, is one such nurse who’s never received a COVID-19 test.
“There’s an endless supply in the sports world,” Ms. Sandoval told the Post. “You’re throwing your arms up. I like sports as much as the next person. But the disparity between who gets tested and who doesn’t, it doesn’t make any sense.”
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