Teams of volunteer medics are helping demonstrators with injuries and health problems as they protest racism and police brutality. In addition to the normal challenges of flushing eyes burned by tear gas or bandaging wounds from batons these “street medics” are working amid a pandemic, complicating their task. Combating infection amid the chaos requires more cautious practices and more protective equipment, medics treating protesters across the country said. It also involves additional risk since public-health officials and...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 07, 2020 16:52 UTC