While medical workers were lauded as heroes at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, some nurses now have to change out of their scrubs before leaving work to avoid public harassment, the Associated Press reported. Nurses in Idaho said that fear of an angry confrontation keeps them from even going to the grocery store in their work attire.
Some doctors and nurses at one hospital in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho have been accused by family members of killing their loved ones who have succumbed to the virus, according to hospital spokeswoman Caiti Bobbit. She said that other people angered by the COVID-19 pandemic spread hurtful rumors about medical workers at the hospital.
