Summary: <p>More than 10,000 nurses at five hospital facilities across New York City are <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-nurses-20230105-vvt4x24k6vevphvycbyx4iy7fm-story.html">on strike</a> today. They're protesting staffing shortages and demanding wage increases and better working conditions as they head into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, <a href="http://www.wnycstudios.org/hospitals%20have%20scaled%20back%20services,%20canceled%20some%20elective%20surgeries,%20and%20are%20diverting%20the%20majority%20of%20ambulances%20to%20other%20hospitals.">hospitals</a> have scaled back services, canceled some elective surgeries, and are diverting the majority of ambulances to other hospitals.</p> <p>We speak with Nancy Hagans, President of the <a href="https://twitter.com/nynurses">New York State Nurses Association</a> and a frontline nurse at Maimonides Medical Center, about the strike and working conditions.</p>
