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workers. But where is all the PPE now? My neighbor is a nurse at Advent Hospital and they are short. My niece’s husband is an anesthesiologist at Sarasota Memorial and has to make an N95 mask last 3 days. The President has said, a number of times, “Anyone who needs a test, can get one.” Well, that might be true, but it might take days and even longer to get results. My broth- er-in-law, his wife, and two daughters stood in line, in Atlanta, for 4 hours to get tests done. And the results took a week. I saw a man on the news who got tested, and the result took 27 days. The Secretary of Labor, Alex Azar, recently stated, falsely, that healthcare workers don’t get infected and when addressing the reopening of schools, he said, “This can work, you can do all of this. There’s no reason schools have to be in any way any differ- ent.”
And the job that Governor DeSantis has done in Florida, by not mandating masks, and reopening without following CDC guidelines, is just as bad. Two months ago, we were in good shape, now we’re one of the states with the highest uptick of cases. But according to the Governor, “if you can do Home De- pot, if you can do Walmart, if you can do these things, we abso- lutely can do the schools.”
I’m not sure where we will be when my deadline rolls around for the Winter 2020 issue on October 20th. I hope, again, that it’s better than it is today. I have my doubts, but I can hope.
I know there are others who may disagree with me and I in- vite your comments.
  Oh, alright, we’ll tell. Everyone must have been stumped. The strange contraption pictured in the last two editions of The Bulletin was the glove dryer used by the Tampa Bay Lightning!
 Letter to the editor
I enjoyed Dr. Davison’s article in the Summer 2020 issue of The Bulletin. However, I beg to differ with his opinion that “almost all of us would be accepted into medical school now as we were before.” In fact, it would now be nearly twice as difficult for us males. In the mid 60’s, only 10-15% of the class were women; now it is 50-55%. Gosh, I’m not sure what I would have been doing all these years.
Fred Rabow, MD ‘67
Editor’s note: Probably lead guitar in a band?
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