Nurses at a hospital in Mexico were reportedly told not to wear face masks so they wouldn't incite panic in patients

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• Nurses at a hospital in Mexico said they were instructed not to wear masks when treating patients so they wouldn't incite fear, Reuters reported.
• "In a morning clinical class, the sub-head told us not to create panic ... that we shouldn't wear face masks because we were going to create a psychosis," one nurse told Reuters.
• As of Tuesday evening, Mexico has nearly 5,400 confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 400 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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Nurses at a hospital in Mexico claim their managers are telling them not to wear masks so they won't incite fear in their patients, Reuters reported.

The IMSS General Hospital in Monclova, Mexico, is the first known coronavirus hotspot in the country, according to the Reuters report. Two doctors and a hospital administrator died from the virus, which causes a respiratory disease known as COVID-19.

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