Nurse Tells Illinois Court She Was Fired Over Inferior Coronavirus Facemask Warning

Mealey's (April 7, 2020, 8:01 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A nurse argues in her complaint filed in an Illinois state court on March 23 that she was fired by a hospital in retaliation for warning co-workers that the facemasks the facility distributed to protect them from the novel coronavirus were not as effective as the Particulate Respirator N95 facemask, which she wore to work instead (Lauri Mazurkiewicz v. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, et al., No. 2020-L-003511, Ill. Cir., Cook Co.)....