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Nurses at Poughkeepsie medical center accuse hospital reusing N-95 masks

Nurses at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie are now alleging the hospital is reusing N-95 masks, after PPE was found strung up on a clothes line in a storage closet over the weekend.

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