Three months ago, nurse Leane Bulaong walked slowly along corridors of metal frames and white curtains at the Baltimore Convention Center, which had been converted into a field hospital for COVID-19. Instead of wearing her usual nursing scrubs, she had donned a patient gown; a pair of non-skid socks; a pulse oximeter, measuring her blood oxygen saturation; and a nasal cannula delivering oxygen from a tank she pulled alongside.
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