纽约，3月20日:2020年3月20日，纽约市，圣巴纳巴斯医院，护士们正在调整测试帐篷内的防护面具。布朗克斯区的圣巴纳巴斯医院搭建帐篷，在可能的COVID-19患者进入急诊部主要区域之前，对他们进行分类。

纽约市的一名护士说，当她感染了新型冠状病毒时，她在两家医院工作了整整一周。

“两周前，我感到背痛。背痛。后来有一天晚上，我的胸痛得很厉害，”这位护士在接受美国有线电视新闻网记者伊丽莎白·科恩的采访时说，她没有透露自己的身份。“我被告知医院没有检测人员。当我被问及如何接受测试时，他们是这么告诉我的。”

这位护士还透露，她一整天都戴着同样的口罩和长袍，即使不得不在几个病人之间来回走动。

“我在摸那个面具。在我脸上。我把它装回去，病毒在空气中飞舞，它就在我的鼻子里。当你必须穿上已经带有这种病毒的衣服时，很容易被污染，”护士说。

护士发现自己被感染的唯一原因是，当她知道一个朋友在工作时，她去了急诊室。她让她的朋友进行COVID-19测试。

“我说，‘请就这一次做吧。我只想确定我没有。我不想传播任何东西。她说，“好吧，”她测试了我，“护士说。

五天后检测结果呈阳性，这意味着护士花了整整七天的时间来照顾被感染的病人。这位护士说，她担心自己可能“感染了工作人员、来访者和病人”

纽约市健康和精神卫生部门的副新闻秘书斯蒂芬妮·布勒告诉记者新闻周刊在一封邮件中，当被问及为什么州或市没有强制医院对医院员工进行例行检查时，“除非他们住院，否则纽约人不应该接受COVID-19测试”。

“对所有人的指导是一样的，不管他们是无症状的还是生病的(但还没有病到需要住院治疗的程度):呆在家里。测试结果不会改变这种指导，也不会改变医生告诉你如何做才能变得更好，那就是呆在家里。布勒在邮件中说:“接受检测浪费了医院照顾重病患者所需的重要物资，并让更多人面临生病的风险。”。

当被问及为什么目前储存在该州的个人防护装备没有被发放到需要的医院时，布勒说，“纽约市目前有足够的个人防护装备(面具、手套、长袍)可以维持几天，而不是几周。我们正在尽一切努力获取更多供应，但全国范围内极度短缺。”

纽约州州长安德鲁·科莫呼吁该州的医院将资源集中起来，这样他们就不会没有必要的个人防护设备，比如长袍和口罩。

“我们想知道[的个人防护装备]每个人都有什么。一个储备，我们公平地分配它，”州长昨天在他的每日冠状病毒简报中说。根据简报会上展示的介绍，目前纽约州库存中有150万个N-95口罩和24万件长袍。

NEW YORK CITY NURSE WORKED FOR A WEEK IN HOSPITALS WHILE INFECTED WITH CORONAVIRUS

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 20: Nurses adjust protective masks inside a testing tent at St. Barnabas hospital on March 20, 2020 in New York City. St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx set-up tents to triage possible COVID-19 patients outside before they enter the main Emergency department area.

A New York City nurse said she worked for a full week at two hospitals while she was infected with the novel coronavirus.

"Two weeks ago, I was feeling back pain. A lot of back pain. And then one night I had really bad chest pain," the nurse, who did not reveal her identity, said in an interview with CNN reporter Elizabeth Cohen. "I was told the hospital was not testing staff. That's what I was told when I asked about getting tested."

The nurse also revealed that she wore the same mask and gown for an entire day of work, even while having to move between several patients.

"I'm touching that mask. It's on my face. I'm putting it back on, virus flies in the air, it goes right up in my nose. It's so easy to get contaminated when you have to put on something that already has this virus on it," the nurse said.

The only reason the nurse found out she was infected was because she went to the emergency room when she knew a friend was working. She asked her friend to conduct the COVID-19 test.

"I said, 'Please just this one time do it. I just want to make sure I don't have it. I don't want to spread anything.' She said, 'Okay,' and she tested me," the nurse said.

The results of the test came back positive five days later, meaning the nurse had spent a full seven days taking care of patients while infected. The nurse said she is worried that she may have "infected staff members, visitors, patients."

Stephanie Buhle, the deputy press secretary for the New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, told Newsweek in an email that "New Yorkers should not get tested for COVID-19 unless they are hospitalized" when asked why hospitals are not mandated by the state or city to routinely test hospital employees.

"The guidance to all people whether they are asymptomatic or sick (but not sick enough to be hospitalized) is the same: STAY HOME. A test result will not change this guidance, and will not change what a doctor tells you to do to get better, which is to stay at home. Getting a test wastes critical supplies needed by hospitals to take care of the very sick and puts more people at risk of getting sick," Buhle said in the email.

When asked about why the personal protective equipment currently in the state's stockpile is not being released to hospitals in need, Buhle said, "New York City currently has enough personal protective equipment (masks, gloves, gowns) to last days, not weeks. We are doing everything we can to acquire more supplies, but there is an extreme shortage nationwide."

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for the state's hospitals to pool their resources together so that they will not have to go without essential personal protective equipment, like gowns and masks.

"We want to know what [personal protective equipment] everybody has. One stockpile, we distribute it fairly," the governor said yesterday during his daily coronavirus briefing. According to the presentation displayed at the briefing, there are currently 1.5 million N-95 masks currently in the New York state stockpile and 240,000 gowns.

New York City is the epicenter of the virus in the United States with 75,795 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, according to the state's website. The city has 41,771 confirmed cases and 1,096 deaths, as of 5 p.m. Tuesday.