CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The union that represents several hundred employees at Stroger Hospital is demanding more Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
The employees are clerks, food service workers, transportation workers and others at Stroger Hospital.
And their shop steward Tyrone Hawthorne says they want more and PPE because, he says, so much about the transmission of COVID-19 is unknown.
"We're in a climate of fear right now and uncertainty. If our president of Cook County can quarantine herself because she was in the presence of someone that tested positive for COVID-19, we're in the presence of someone every day, 24 hours a day, on each of our three shifts."
President Toni Preckwinkle isolated herself at home after a member of her security staff tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
A statement from Cook County Health says it is taking its cue from the Centers for Disease Control in providing PPE.
"At no time have we put our staff in harm's way," the statement said.





