FILE - National Nurses United (NNU) displays 164 white nurse’s clog shoes outside the U.S. Capitol to honor the nurses who have lost their lives to COVID-19.
On Tuesday, members of the National Nurses United union placed 164 white pairs of shoes on the U.S. Capitol front lawn to symbolize the number of nurses who have died due to contracting COVID-19 while fighting the novel coronavirus on the front lines.“Yesterday’s action in Washington, D.C.
was to honor the lives of 164 registered nurses who have died because of COVID-19,” Zenei Cortez, president of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association, said.Nurses stood on the U.S.